Pulpit Rock Base-End Station - Interior

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	Entrance to the tower. The steel-pipe guardrails and the steel security door have been restored.
	Interior stairs on the ground level. A coal-fed pot-belly stove would have been located here, and possibly another on an upper floor, for heating the tower in the winter months.
	Electrical fuze boxes. The tower was originally supplied from the commercial power grid.
	On the 6th floor in the Plotting (or Radio) Room, wall-mounted communication devices went here. Telephone, clock, and time-interval bell system.
	Map table in the Plotting (or Radio) Room.
	Observer's chair on the lower observation deck (7th floor).
	Map tables and observer's chair on the lower observation deck.
	Map tables and observer's chair on the lower observation deck.
	Interior ladder from the lower observation deck to the upper observation deck (8th floor).
	Wall-mounted device on the lower observation deck (7th floor).
	Observer's chair on the upper observation deck, situated on top of the DPF instrument base.
	Upper observation deck (8th floor).
	A display panel on the upper observation deck located over the ladder hole to the lower observation deck.
	Steps and ladder to the roof deck.
	On the roof deck, looking north.
	On the roof deck, looking south.
	On the roof deck, looking east. The Battery 951 site is next to the highway where the white car is parked. The second tower (steel-frame) was once located near the white house on the left.
	On the roof deck, the original rails for the sliding trap-door (or scuttle), now weather-sealed.
	On the roof deck, chimney and unknown base plate. The tower was heated in cold weather by a coal-fed stove.
	On the roof deck, unknown base plate.
	On the roof deck, reconstructed hatchway (not to original WWII period).
	The original USCGS disk on the roof, before the roof was water-sealed. Photo courtesy of the Friends of Pulpit Rock Tower.
	Detail of the USCGS disk.
	The ladder hole from the upper observation deck (8th floor) to the lower observation deck (7th floor).
	The ladder from the Plotting (or Radio) Room (6th floor) to the lower observation deck (7th floor).
	On the 5th floor, directly below the Plotting Room floor. This was partitioned into a closed room, probably by NH Fish and Game in the 1970s.
	Descending the stairwell from the 5th floor down.
	Descending the stairwell.
	Descending the stairwell, much like an old lighthouse.
	Descending the stairwell.
	2nd floor of the tower. The 2nd through 5th floors were not originally used for any purpose.
	Ground floor, trap door (or manhole) to the communication cable junction box underneath. It was too heavy to lift by hand, or it was rusted (or welded) in place.
	Ground floor, electrical conduits next to the fuze box.

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