ROCK OF AGES LIGHT<\/p>\n
Location: OFF ISLE ROYALE\/LAKE SUPERIOR
\nNearest City: HOUGHTON
\nCounty: KEWEENAW
\nU.S.C.G. District: 9<\/p>\n
Year Station Established: 1908<\/p>\n
Existing Historic Tower:<\/p>\n
Year Light First Lit: 1908
\nIs the Light Operational? YES
\nDate Deactivated: N\/A
\nAutomated: 1978
\nFoundation Materials: CONCRETE PIER\/STEEL CAISSON
\nConstruction Materials: STEEL\/MASONRY\/CONCRETE
\nMarkings\/Patterns: WHITE W\/BLACK BASE & LANTERN
\nShape: CYLINDRICAL “BOTTLE SHAPE”
\nRelationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
\nTower Height: 117
\nOriginal Optic: SECOND ORDER, FRESNEL
\nYear Original Lens Installed: 1910
\nPresent Optic: 190 MM
\nYear Present Lens Installed: 1985
\nHeight of Focal Plane: 130
\nFresnel Lens Disposition: ORIGINAL REVOLVING LENS ON EXHIBIT AT WINDIGO INFORMATION STATION AT ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK
\nHas tower been moved? NO<\/p>\n
Previous Tower(s): N\/A<\/p>\n
Modern Tower? NO<\/p>\n
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO<\/p>\n
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES<\/p>\n
Year Constructed: 1908
\nNumber of Stories: 0
\nArchitectural Style: INTEGRAL TO TOWER
\nConstruction Materials: STEEL\/MASONRY\/CONCR<\/p>\n
Other Structures: NONE<\/p>\n
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION IN NATIONAL PARK<\/p>\n
Owner\/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD<\/p>\n
Open to the Public? YES (Goto Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)<\/p>\n
Web Site: ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK<\/p>\n
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #83000881
\nName of Listing: ROCK OF AGES LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD\/GREAT
\nLAKES TR) On State List\/Inventory? NO; Year Listed:<\/p>\n
Documented by HABS\/HAER? YES MI-388 (WASO)<\/p>\n
Miscellaneous:<\/p>\n
MAJOR ENGINEERING FEAT BECAUSE OF ISOLATED LOCATION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light-station-2003-2004-archived-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alpenalighthouse.org\/michiganlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}