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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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