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Condition at this date:

Shape of tower in plan:

Form of tower:

Height from base to ventilator ball:

Height of focal plane
above mean high water:

Background of lighthouse as seen from sea:

Color of tower:

Color of tower/ how produced:

Tower connection:

Object for navigation:

Building materials:

General desc:

Wall thickness at base:

Wall thickness at parapet:

Diameter at base:

Diameter at parapet:

Kind of stairway and steps:

Number of landings:

Size of glass:

Number of windows and size of sash:

Number of doors:

Kind of foundation and depth below surface:

Character of soil surrounding the lighthouse:

Soil susceptibility:

Misc remarks:

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Excellent.

Both towers square.

Pyramidal skeleton, both towers.

Front 48 ft., Rear 72 ft.

Front 53 ft., Rear 78 ft.

Wooded.

Both white

Paint.

Both detached. Front tower is about 200 ft. N'ly of dwelling.

Range to guide thru the head of St. Marys River from Cedar Point Range line to Whitefish
Bay.

Both towers of same materials & construction. Skeleton Steel constructin of 4 corner posts of 4x4 Ls & 3/4" round steel tie rods with turnbuckles. Each corner post riveted to samll bass plate of angle & plate bolted to stone pier foundations.

The ladder of T-bars & 1" pipe rounds extending up 1 side of tower forms a track which guides the lantern cage which is raised & lowered by means of an iron winch & steel wire
cable.

Front 10'6", rear 14'6"

Both 3'

Ladder of steeel T-bar strings & 1" round pipe with cast iron fittings.

None.

Plain wood door to cleaning house.

4 corner piers of masonry 5'x5'x5' high & 1 center pier same with concrete top.

Front tower on rock, piers in water. Rear tower in swamp with sand-clay.

Around dwelling, yes. A forest grows close around the clearing of the reservation.

Wood structure,6'x6' plan, roof sheathed & canvas covered & having trap doors to admit lantern cage, houses lower part of this ladder track to protect apparatus & answer as a cleaning room. Iron winch is bolted to a concrete-masonry pier in center of tower.

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Premises | Lantern and Fixtures | Ventilators and Watchroom | Illuminating Apparatus | Closets and Storerooms

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