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Ransom Water Tower

United States

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Ransom Water Tower is a former water tower in the LaSalle County, Illinois, village of Ransom. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It was demolished in January 2025.

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Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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