EAGLE HARBOR
LIGHTHOUSE
State: MICHIGAN
Location: WEST END OF HARBOR/LAKE SUPERIOR
Nearest City: EAGLE HARBOR
County: KEWEENAW
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1851
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1871
- Is the Light Operational? YES
- Date Deactivated: N/A
- Automated: 1980
- Foundation Materials: DRESSED STONE/TIMBER
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE TOWER ON RED DWELLING
- Shape: OCTAGONAL
- Relationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
- Tower Height: 44
- Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1857
- Present Optic: DCB 224
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1968
- Height of Focal Plane: 60
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
Previous Tower(s):
1. Construction Date:
Description:
Fate/Disposition:
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? YES
- Year Constructed: 1895
- Construction Materials: STEEL FRAME
- Architectural Style: RECTANGULAR
- Fog Signal Type: REMOVED/ORIG. HORN
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1871
- Number of Stories: 1.5
- Architectural Style: ATTACHED TO TOWER
- Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: BRICK OIL HOUSE, 4 CEMENT BLOCK CAR GARAGES, 2
WOODEN ASST KEEPERS DWELLINGS (RELOCATED FROM LIFESAVING STATION ACROSS
THE HARBOR), RADIOBEACON
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION/MUSEUM
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD LEASE TO KEWEENAW COUNTY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Non-NPS Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #84001745
Name of Listing: EAGLE HARBOR LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT
LAKES TR) On State List/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:
Miscellaneous:
FOG HORN ON DISPLAY AT MUSEUM IN SAULT STE MARIE, MI; USCG PLANS TO
TRANSFER PROPERTY OUT OF USCG OWNERSHIP |
