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BLUE HILLS RESERVATION, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The lookout tower atop Great Blue Hill reopened Thursday after a year-long closure for renovations.
During the closure, workers rebuilt the chimney, fixed crumbling mortar and made other improvements on the structure.
The New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps built the tower during the 1930s.
"And years later, we restore it with ARPA [American Rescue Plan Act] money during the height of Covid," Massachusetts State Senator Walter Timilty said at a reopening ceremony Thursday. "There's some great symmetry there, and I would say symmetry for good."
The Great Blue Hill Observation Tower, also known as Eliot Tower, was designed by landscape architect Charles Eliot.
Eliot's great grandsons said the tower atop Great Blue Hill is just one of the "countless ways" their grandfather's legacy is still living on after his death in 1897.
WBZ NewsRadio's Chaiel Schaffel (@CSchaffelWBZ) reports.
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