Fire Watchtower in Kostroma

The fire watchtower stands on Susaninskaya Square and has long been considered the chief symbol of Kostroma. The building was raised between 1825 and 1827 to a design by the provincial architect Pyotr Fursov: behind the portico with six columns and a moulded pediment hides the engine house, and above it rises the tower with a lookout platform. Town legend has it that Nicholas I, on seeing the watchtower, remarked that there was none such even in the capital. The fire brigade occupied the building almost to the end of the twentieth century, and now a display of the Kostroma museum reserve works inside. In the evening the facade is lit, and the white colonnade reads clearly against the fading sky.

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