Description This little thing was built in 1900 as a memorial to George Bancroft by his friend Stephen Salisbury. Those two last names pervade the history of Worcester.The tower sits on a hill above WPI, where I went to college. We would come up here and scale the outside, but no one would ever go much higher than the second window on the tower. I only went to the top once, someone had broken the lock on the door before us. It is beautiful from up there. That was almost 20 years ago... No one ever goes up inside any more and the trees have grown around it so you cannot see the city from it either. A damn shame...