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The Konica Minolta Tower Centre, opened in 1962, is located in the Fallsview district of Niagara Falls, Ontario and was the first of the modern observation towers built near the brink of the Falls. The Tower Hotel was originally called the ''Seagram Tower'', named after the House of Seagram business in Montreal. Over the years, due to multiple bankruptcies and ownership changes, tower names changed between ''Heritage Tower'' (1969), ''Royal Inn Tower'' (1971), ''Royal Center Tower'' (1972), ''Panasonic Tower'' (1973), and ''Minolta Tower'' (1984-2007). It features an indoor observation deck, restaurant, wedding chapel, and hotel. From street level, the tower is 99 metres (325 feet) tall, however it is situated 160 metres (525 feet) above the falls. The tower underwent renovations again in 2010. This time the exterior was painted white, the banner displaying ''Konica Minolta'' on it was removed, with a banner displaying the title Tower Hotel now in its place, and there is no longer a clock on the building. == Previous towers == For more than 100 years, there had been various, but much smaller, towers built throughout the area with most of them being wooden structures. The two most famous were probably the wood construction tower that was located at the top of Drummond Hill on Lundy's Lane behind the historic Drummond Inn, and Street's Pagoda on Cedar Island. * ''Drummond Hill Tower'' was built for visitors to have an aerial view of the War of 1812 Battle of Lundy's Lane battle field and the Drummond Hill Cemetery where many British and American soldiers killed during the battle are buried. * ''Street's Pagoda'' was named for an early area settler, Thomas "T.C." Street, who had ownership of Cedar Island, located between the Horseshoe Falls and Dufferin Islands. This tower was dismantled in 1887, and Cedar Island was eventually made part of the mainland with the construction of the Rankine Generating Station upriver by 1910. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Konica Minolta Tower Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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