HURON ISLAND
LIGHTHOUSE
State: MICHIGAN
Location: WEST HURON ISLAND/LAKE SUPERIOR
Nearest City: SKANEE
County: MARQUETTE
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1868
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1877
- Is the Light Operational? YES
- Date Deactivated: N/A
- Automated: 1972
- Foundation Materials: SURFACE ROCK
- Construction Materials: GRANITE/BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: NATURAL W/WHITE LANTERN
- Shape: SQUARE
- Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- Tower Height: 39
- Original Optic: THREE-ONE-HALF ORDER FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1868
- Present Optic: ELECTRIC OSCILLATOR LIGHT
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1961
- Height of Focal Plane: 197
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
Previous Tower(s):
1. Construction Date:
Description:
Fate/Disposition:
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? YES
- Year Constructed:
- Construction Materials: RED BRICK
- Architectural Style:
- Fog Signal Type: DIAPHONE/ORIG. STEAM WHISTLE
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1868
- Number of Stories: 1.5
- Architectural Style: ATTACHED
- Construction Materials: GRANITE
Other Structures: OIL HOUSE, BOATHOUSE
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION IN NATIONAL WILDLIFE
REFUGE
Owner/Manager: FISH &WILDLIFE SERVICE
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Non-NPS Web Site:
LINK
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #75000955
Name of Listing: HURON ISLANDS LIGHTHOUSE
On State List/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:
Miscellaneous:
TOWER IN NEED OF STABILIZATION (ROOF REPORTEDLY CAVING IN); ORIGINALLY
A LIFEBOAT STATION |
