The Witch's Hat Tower
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
The 1911 Prospect Park water tower whose pointed roof gave Minneapolis a witch-lore landmark and a neighborhood its name.
The Prospect Park water tower of 1911 carries a conical roof that gave it its name, the Witch's Hat, and the name grew into a neighborhood identity: Prospect Park's tower is the landmark Minneapolis keeps in its postcards and its Halloween imagery. The tower's platform was once open for the Fourth of July, and the lore around it, the usual whisper of tunnels and graduate-student legends, is light but continuous.
MNopedia documents it as a community landmark with story layers, and the tower's real distinction is the way a municipal structure became, purely through its silhouette and name, a piece of the city's magical imagery.
Visiting
55 Malcolm St SE, Minneapolis; the tower itself is closed to climbing; the surrounding Prospect Park is public. See MNopedia.
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