CPR Water Tower (Enclosed)

[tetters]

The ball at the top is decorative for lack of a better term.

I wonder if the ball at the top was the insulator for a lightning rod. Many older structures dating from the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially barns and homes, had lighting rods.



Andrew

This makes a lot of sense. I now remember that the place I used to work at had preserved a large mast with a copper ball that was on top of the building's cupola. It was about 1 foot across and it was a lightening rod. It was also pretty mis-shapen (sp?) and dented all to heck...


Thanks for the compliments too.