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SEUL CHOIX
POINTE LIGHT
State: MICHIGAN
Location: UPPER PENINSULA/LAKE MICHIGAN
Nearest City: GULLIVER
County: SCHOOLCRAFT
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1892
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1895
- Is the Light Operational? YES
- Date Deactivated: N/A
- Automated: 1972
- Foundation Materials: ASHLAR STONE
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE
- Shape: CONICAL
- Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- Tower Height: 78
- Original Optic: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1895
- Present Optic: DCB-24
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1972
- Height of Focal Plane: 80
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
- Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s):
1. Construction Date:
Description:
Fate/Disposition:
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? YES
- Year Constructed: 1895
- Construction Materials: RED BRICK
- Architectural Style: GABLE
- Fog Signal Type: FOG HORNS ON DISPLAY IN MUSEUM
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES, MODIFIED WITH 1925 ADDITION
- Year Constructed: 1892
- Number of Stories: 2
- Architectural Style: GABLE
- Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: 2 RED BRICK OIL HOUSES, BARN, WORKSHOP, CISTERN IN
BASEMENT OF KEEPERS, GARAGE (ORIG. USLS BOATHOUSE), 2ND ASSISTANT KEEPERS
(1ST ASSISTANT ADDED TO HEAD KEEPERS 1925), 2 OUTHOUSES, DOCK AT PUBLIC
ACCESS SITE
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION/MUSEUM & PUBLIC PARK
Owner/Manager: STATE OF MICHIGAN/U.S. COAST GUARD LEASE TOWER TO
GULLIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #84001846
Name of Listing: SEUL CHOIX POINTE LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT
LAKES TR)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1987
Miscellaneous: ONLY HARBOR OF REFUGE IN THIS PART OF LAKE MICHIGAN;
OPERATED BY GULLIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY THRU MUELLER TOWNSHIP;
KEEPERS RESTORED TO 1900-1920S APPEARANCE |
