 POINT IROQOUIS
LIGHTHOUSE
State: MICHIGAN
Location: LAKE SUPERIOR/WHITEFISH BAY
Nearest City: BAY MILLS
County: CHIPPEWA
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1855
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1871
- Is the Light Operational? NO
- Date Deactivated: 1971
- Automated: 1962
- Foundation Materials: CEMENT
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE TOWER/BLACK LANTERN
- Shape: CONICAL
- Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- Tower Height: 65
- Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1870
- Present Optic: REMOVED
- Year Present Lens Installed:
- Height of Focal Plane: 68
- Fresnel Lens Disposition: SENT TO SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION 1963; FOURTH ORDER LENS FROM ST. MARTIN'S REEF LIGHT STATION
ON DISPLAY IN KEEPERS
Previous Tower(s):
1. Construction Date: 1855
Description: WOODEN WITH 45-FOOT FOCAL PLANE
Fate/Disposition: TORN DOWN IN 1870 AND REPLACED BY PRESENT TOWER
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO, REMOVED
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1902
- Number of Stories: 2
- Architectural Style: CAPE COD
- Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: ASST KEEPERS QUARTERS (1870); REMOVED/ORIG.
FOG SIGNAL BLDG., 3 BARNS, CHICKEN HOUSE, WELL, BOATHOUSE, WELL HOUSE, OIL
HOUSE
Current Use: MUSEUM IN NATIONAL FOREST
Owner/Manager: U.S. FOREST SERVICE
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Non-NPS Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #75000940
Name of Listing: POINT IROQUOIS LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT
LAKES TR) On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
GUIDE TO ST. MARYS RIVER; SOO LOCKS CONNECTION BETWEEN LAKE SUPERIOR
AND OTHER GREAT LAKES; PART OF HIAWATHA NATIONAL FOREST; REPLACED BY
AUTOMATIC SIGNAL BEACON INSTALLED IN CHANNEL ACROSS THE BAY FROM THE
LIGHTHOUSE; RENOVATION BEGUN 1983 |
