Blackpool Tower stands in the seaside resort town of Blackpool on England's northwest coast, completed in 1894 to a design by the architects James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, its builders explicitly inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which had opened five years earlier. At roughly 158 meters it was, and remains, a landmark structure disproportionate to the modest resort town around it, built as a centerpiece attraction during the height of Blackpool's growth as a working-class seaside holiday destination for industrial northern England. At its base the tower complex houses the Tower Ballroom, an ornate Victorian dance hall featuring a large Wurlitzer theater organ that rises from beneath the stage, long a fixture of British popular entertainment and, in later decades, a filming location for the television program Strictly Come Dancing. The tower also contains an aquarium, a circus and an observation deck near its summit with a glass floor added in later renovations, together making the complex one of the most visited tourist attractions on the English coast.
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Building Type LocationBlackpool, Lancashire, England 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Blackpool Tower, Wikipedia
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1. Blackpool Tower, Wikipedia
Infobox, General information, Type
Observation Tower, Radio Tower, Tourist Attraction
Infobox, General information, Location
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
History section
opened to the public on 14 May 1894
Infobox, General information, Height
518 feet (158 metres) tall
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Blackpool Tower stands in the seaside resort town of Blackpool on England's northwest coast, completed in 1894 to a design by the architects James Maxwell and Charles Tuke, its builders explicitly inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which had opened five years earlier. At roughly 158 meters it was, and remains, a landmark structure disproportionate to the modest resort town around it, built as a centerpiece attraction during the height of Blackpool's growth as a working-class seaside holiday destination for industrial northern England. At its base the tower complex houses the Tower Ballroom, an ornate Victorian dance hall featuring a large Wurlitzer theater organ that rises from beneath the stage, long a fixture of British popular entertainment and, in later decades, a filming location for the television program Strictly Come Dancing. The tower also contains an aquarium, a circus and an observation deck near its summit with a glass floor added in later renovations, together making the complex one of the most visited tourist attractions on the English coast.
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia lead
Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Blackpool Tower
- Wikidata Q880905, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q880905, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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