3D print the Harlem Fire Watchtower
A free, printable model of the Harlem Fire Watchtower, an open octagonal iron tower on grassy ground in Marcus Garvey Park, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 14 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 4 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
14 m of the Harlem Fire Watchtower, 4 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Open iron lattice
The open cross-bracing, stairs and railings are very thin. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale so they survive; Full detail keeps more of them on a larger print with a fine nozzle.
- A tall, narrow tower
Print slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the octagonal roof and rails crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Harlem Fire Watchtower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Harlem Fire Watchtower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Harlem Fire Watchtower
The Harlem Fire Watchtower has another name, the Mount Morris Fire Watchtower. This fire lookout stands in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Manhattan. Of 11 cast-iron watchtowers set up around the city beginning in the 1850s, it is the only one left. Julius H. Kroehl built the 14 m (47 ft) tower for $2,300 to a design by James Bogardus.
It went into service in 1857 after Harlem residents asked for it. From the towers, volunteers kept watch for fires, which were common in the wooden buildings that made up much of the city, and passed the word by ringing a bell. Later, electric telegraphs were installed. When pull boxes and other advances made the system obsolete, it ended and the remaining towers were eventually destroyed. Harlem's, sheltered in the middle of a park, survived.
During the New Deal, government employees working for the Works Project Administration rebuilt the surrounding area, creating a plaza sometimes called "the Acropolis", a stone retaining wall and wide steps. The tower was made a city landmark in 1967 and entered the National Register of Historic Places during 1976. NYC Parks took it apart for restoration starting in late 2014, and it reopened to visitors in December 2019.
About this model
The Harlem Fire Watchtower is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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