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Mare Island Light Station
Dwelling
Keeper's dwelling & lighthouse are built together. Tower rises from center of bldg.
white, lead color trimmings, red roof.
wood & brick
Ground floor- 4, + bath, pantry & hall; 2nd floor - 3 rooms & hall.
1 keeper & 1 laborer
Stable, chicken-house, wood sheds, latrine, old & new f.s. bldgs, tide gauge house (belongs to Navy yard), & oil house
All white with lead color trim. Chicken house & wood sheds are whitewashed
Boardwalk leads to stable from cement pavement before dwelling. Another boardwalk leads to garden & joins short cement walk from latrine
4.7 acres. enclosed by barbed wire fence on E, N & W sides. S side has bluff down to waters edge. Picket fence separates stable yard from garden & dwelling.
About 300 sq. ft.
nearly all in sage-brush except where cleared for bldgs, garden & yards
about 500 sq. ft.
about 500 sq.ft.
clay
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