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CRISP POINT
LIGHTHOUSE
State: MICHIGAN
Location: 13 MILES W. OF WHITEFISH POINT/LAKE SUPERIOR
Nearest City: PARADISE
County: LUCE
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1904
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1904
- Is the Light Operational? NO
- Date Deactivated: 1947
- Automated:
- Foundation Materials: POURED CONCRETE
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
- Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO ENTRANCE ROOM
- Relationship to Other Structures: SEPARATE
- Tower Height: 58
- Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1904
- Present Optic: NONE
- Year Present Lens Installed:
- Height of Focal Plane: 58
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO; DESTOYED BY 1963 STORM
- Year Constructed: 1904
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Architectural Style: ATTACHED TO TOWER
- Fog Signal Type: DIAPHONE
Existing Keepers Quarters? NO; DEMOLISHED
- Year Constructed: 1904
- Number of Stories: 2
- Architectural Style: DUPLEX
- Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: ALL DEMOLISHED; ORIG. WHITE FRAME BOAT HOUSE,
BARN, BRICK OIL HOUSE, 2 OUTBUILDINGS
Current Use: HISTORIC SITE (UNDER STABILIZATION)
Owner/Manager: LUCE COUNTY/CRISP POINT LIGHTHOUSE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Non-NPS Web Site:
Link
National Register Status: NONE Reference # 0
Name of Listing:
On State List/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:
Miscellaneous:
ALL BLDGS EXCEPT TOWER AND ONE WALL OF ENTRANCE ROOM DESTROYED BY
EROSION; 1000 CUBIC YARDS OF STONE PLACED IN FRONT OF TOWER IN WINTER
1997/98, PLANS FOR FURTHER PROTECTION/STABILIZATION AS FUNDS BECOME
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