Florentine tower of Buire
Buire, France
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Florentine Tower of Buire stands in the commune of Buire in the Aisne department of northern France. Built in 1920–1921 in reinforced concrete by Gustave Umbdenstock and the engineer Raoul Dautry for the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord, it is a 45.76-metre former signal box in an Art Deco style based on the brick belfries of northern France. Its top once carried four clocks, and it has been unused since 1944. It has been a classified monument historique since 1995.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- tower
- Heritage
- monument sélectionné par la mission d'identification du patrimoine immobilier en péril (2023), classified historical monument
- Place
- Buire, France
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