National Register Listing

Sleeping Giant Tower

200 Mt. Carmel Ave. at Mt. Carmel summit, Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, CT
Local significance of the building:
Architecture; Social History

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

Connecticut was home to the first municipal public park in the United States. The park, named Bushnell Park, was established in Hartford in 1854.