Bancroft Tower Rd., Worcester, Massachusetts. County/parish: Worcester.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 05, 1980. NRIS 80000524.
1 contributing site.
Bancroft Tower is a 56-foot-high (17 m) tower of granite and natural stone, which looks like a miniature feudal castle. It is in Salisbury Park, in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. The folly was erected in 1900, in memory of George Bancroft, a native of Worcester and a politician, historian, and statesman. The tower was designed by Worcester architects Earle and Fisher, and cost about $15,000 to build. Bancroft Tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792861