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POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHT

State: MICHIGAN
Location: POINTE AUX BARQUES REEF / LAKE HURON
Nearest City: PORT HOPE
County: HURON
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1848

 Pointe Aux Barques Light
National Register of Historic Places photo courtesy Division of Michigan History, 1971
Existing Historic Tower:
  • Year Light First Lit: 1857
  • Is the Light Operational? YES
  • Date Deactivated: N/A
  • Automated: 1958
  • Foundation Materials: DRESSED STONE/TIMBER
  • Construction Materials: BRICK
  • Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK & RED TRIM
  • Shape: CONICAL
  • Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
  • Tower Height: 89
  • Original Optic: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL
  • Year Original Lens Installed: 1857
  • Present Optic: DCB 224
  • Year Present Lens Installed: 1958
  • Height of Focal Plane: 93
  • Fresnel Lens Disposition: ORIGINAL LENS DISPLAYED AT HURON CITY MUSEUM
  • Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s):
  • 1. Construction Date: 1847
  • Description: CONSTRUCTED OF ROCK FROM ALONG THE SHORELINE
  • Fate/Disposition: TOWER AND DWELLING WEATHERED POORLY AND WERE TORN DOWN IN 1857
Modern Tower? NO

Existing Sound Signal Building? NO

Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
  • Year Constructed: 1857
  • Number of Stories: 1.5
  • Architectural Style: ATTACHED TO TOWER
  • Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: RED IRON OIL HOUSE, CARRIAGE HOUSE, RED BRICK ASST. KEEPERS DWELLING (1908)

Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION / MUSEUMS IN KEEPERS DWELLING

Owner/Manager: HURON COUNTY PARK SYSTEM / POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE SOCIETY

Open to the Public? YES (Go to Lighthouses to Visit for access information)

National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #73000949
Name of Listing: POINTE AUX BARQUES LIGHTHOUSE
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1972

Miscellaneous:
HOUSES TWO MUSEUMS - "THE KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT" AND "THE THUMB UNDERWATER PRESERVE"



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