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Wooden lookout tower on hill, Melrose, MA, 1907

Subject
Historic Towers
Card type
Real photo
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Wooden lookout tower on hill, Melrose, MA, 1907, c. 1907 real photo postcard
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Back of Wooden lookout tower on hill, Melrose, MA, 1907, c. 1907 real photo postcard
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About this postcard

A tall wooden lookout tower stands on a bare, rocky hilltop above Melrose, Massachusetts. A stone-and-rubble base with an arched doorway carries two open timber observation stages, topped by a small glazed cupola. Leafless trees and scrub cover the slope around it under a blank sky. Melrose was a suburban city a few miles north of Boston, and a tower on one of its rocky hills gave a wide view over the town and the country beyond. The writer, sending the card in April 1907, remarks that the tower is where someone spent an afternoon; the sentence is loosely written and the person is not named.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Forgetting me until I received your last postal I thought I would write an- other. This tower is where some of his time was spent during the afternoon C.C.L.

PublisherS. L. Blood
LOOK OUT TOWER, MELROSE, MASS.
PostmarkedBoston, MA, April 2, 1907
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Sadie Mitchell

8 Gardner St Roxbury

Postcard record

Postmarked, Boston, MA
PublisherS. L. Blood
ConditionGood
Place addressedMiss Sadie Mitchell, 8 Gardner St, Roxbury
Place depictedMelrose, MA
Place mentionedCliftondale, MA
receivedROXBURY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1906
NotesUndivided-back era card; handwritten message written across the lower front over the caption area; printed caption strip at bottom; light corner and edge wear, slight soiling. Postmark: BOSTON MASS APR 2 AM 1907; BOSTON CIRCUIT R.P.O. 2 (also receiving mark ROXBURY APR 2 1907). Undivided back; white border; matte B&W print; address partly obscured by tape stain.

Cite this card

Wooden lookout tower on hill, Melrose, MA, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/wooden-lookout-tower-on-hill-melrose-ma-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.