Dwelling

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Grand Island Light Station

Dwelling

Attached to W side of tower.

Buff, painted on brick walls

Brick walls on stone foundation, cut stone sills & lintels.

7 plus cleaning room, 2 closets, pantry & cellar

1 Keeper & 1 assistant

Shed, 14 x 24' batten board, metal-slate roof; privy 8 x 6' brick, shingle roof; spring house of boards 4x4'; oilhouse & boathouse.

Shed & spring house, whitewashed, red roof; privy, buff, red roof; oilhouse brick, boathouse
white.

150 lin. ft. of concrete walk to all buildings. exc. boathouse, to which a path leads having 4 wood bridges over ravines.

No inclosures

About 600 sq. ft., inclosed by low stave fence.

About 90 acres hardwood; some of it in cedar.

None, aside from garden, which is artificially fertililized.

None besides garden.

Sand & loam on sandstone bedrock.

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