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growth of the city meant that the drill tower, originally built near the southern edge of town, was now crowded by tall modern buildings and heavy traffic, making the training fires a growing hazard to downtown. Finally, in 1974 the fire department opened a new training tower in southeast Austin, and the original Fire Drill Tower was closed.
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and extinguishing training fires. The tower was built in 1930 at a cost of $ 6,200 (equivalent to $ 113,000 in 2023), and it immediately began to be burned and flooded regularly during training exercises and the testing of equipment. It also served as a backdrop for fire department photographs,
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grillwork gates and flanked by a pair of cast iron light fixtures. On the first five floors, each face of the building is penetrated by one centered window (excepting the first floor, where the north face instead has the front doorway, and the south face is a solid brick wall). The windows are now
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bell system was installed, transforming the fire drill tower into a working bell tower. After the renovations were completed, on August 23, 1978 the tower was rededicated as Buford Tower, named after Austin Fire Department Captain James L. Buford, the first Austin firefighter to die in the line of
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As decades passed, firefighting technology advanced, and Austin's buildings grew taller. In the 1960s, snorkel trucks gave the city's firefighters access to higher windows than could be reached with traditional ladders, and the tower's value as a training facility declined. At the same time, the
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On April 1, 2021, a fire from a nearby homeless camp extended to the tower causing damage. The fire department ruled the cause of the fire "incendiary," or intentionally set, pending further investigation. The damage is estimated at $ 12,000.
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frame the openings to the sides. The arches were originally open, but since the 1978 restoration they have been filled with metal mesh and cast iron grillwork. Above these openings, another ring of brick corbels supports the hipped red
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glazed, though they were originally left open to facilitate airflow to the training fires. The doorway and all of the windows are topped by semicircular brick arches; the windows have concrete
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during the Christmas season. The tower has also become the site of the Austin Firefighters' Association's annual memorial service for
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accents, 67 feet (20 m) tall with a 14-foot (4.3 m) square cross-section. Built in the style of an
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The tower stood unused and untended for years, and its unglazed windows allowed it to become infested with
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duty. The bell system was named the Kitchens Memorial Chimes, after the tower's builder, Rex D. Kitchens.
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and landmark. Named after fire department Captain James L. Buford, the structure has been listed on the
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These funds allowed the tower's brick facade to be cleaned, its roof repaired, and its windows
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of the electronic carillon; the system's controls are below, on the second floor.
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authorized construction of a fire drill tower on a parcel of land along the
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was added to the doors at ground level and to the highest level, where an
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Travis County, Texas
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At its base, the tower rests on a 4-foot (1.2 m) white concrete
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doors and windows. The tower was designed by local architect
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downtown, where the river could provide water for testing
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where the firefighters could train. On December 26, 1929,
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Buford Tower is a freestanding six-story concrete tower
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Above the fifth level, the tower is wrapped by a stone
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social events, and public firefighting demonstrations.
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George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Buford Tower is located in Texas
Buford Tower is located in the United States
Austin, Texas
30°15′49″N 97°44′45″W / 30.2636°N 97.7459°W / 30.2636; -97.7459
Hugo Kuehne
J. Roy White
Italianate
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tower
Lady Bird Lake
downtown
Austin, Texas
drill tower
Austin Fire Department
bell tower
National Register of Historic Places
professional fire department
drill tower
City Council
Colorado River
fire hoses
pigeons
National Association of Women in Construction
glazed
grillwork
electronic carillon
Christmas carols
first responders

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