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Dwelling

Present dwelling attached to tower on E side by passage. This remodeled to double dwelling; also a new & separate dwelling built in 1909.

Natural color of red brick

red brick walls, red metal slate roof, stone sills & lintels.

8 rooms, pantry & cellar

Keeper & 2 assts.and families

Oil house, woodshed, privy, hennery; Woodshed 12' x 14' x 9' to plates.

Oil house, red brick & iron roof; woodshed frame buff with green trim & red metal slate hip roof; red brick privy, with red metal plate roof, old board & batten lined, whitewashed.

Present walks of plank, from dwelling to all out buildings, boathouse, fog signal & dock.

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about 300 acres

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Premises & along shore line is sand on sandstone bed rock. Practically all remainder of reservation is cedar swamp.

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