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ROCK OF
AGES LIGHT
Location: OFF ISLE ROYALE/LAKE SUPERIOR
Nearest City: HOUGHTON
County: KEWEENAW
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1908
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1908
- Is the Light Operational? YES
- Date Deactivated: N/A
- Automated: 1978
- Foundation Materials: CONCRETE PIER/STEEL
CAISSON
- Construction Materials: STEEL/MASONRY/CONCRETE
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK BASE & LANTERN
- Shape: CYLINDRICAL "BOTTLE SHAPE"
- Relationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
- Tower Height: 117
- Original Optic: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1910
- Present Optic: 190 MM
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1985
- Height of Focal Plane: 130
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
ORIGINAL REVOLVING LENS ON EXHIBIT AT WINDIGO INFORMATION STATION AT
ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK
- Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1908
- Number of Stories: 0
- Architectural Style: INTEGRAL TO TOWER
- Construction Materials: STEEL/MASONRY/CONCR
Other Structures: NONE
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION IN NATIONAL PARK
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Web Site:
ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #83000881
Name of Listing: ROCK OF AGES LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT
LAKES TR) On State List/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:
Documented by
HABS/HAER? YES MI-388 (WASO)
Miscellaneous:
MAJOR ENGINEERING FEAT BECAUSE OF ISOLATED LOCATION |
