Moonlight Tower - Wikipedia

The towers were popular in the late 19th century in cities across the United States and Europe;[citation needed] they were most common in the 1880s and 1890s. In some places they were used when standard street-lighting, using smaller, shorter, and more numerous lamps, was impractically expensive. In other places they were used in addition to gas st

Moonlight towers in Austin near TxDOT headquarters served as inspiration for some of the first high-mast lighting towers in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.

A moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night.