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Detour Reef Light Station - 1909

Dwelling

Attached to tower by covered passage leading from 2nd floor. Is double dwelling.

White with red roof.

Wood frame construction on brick foundation. Metal slate roof, 3 brick chimneys.

6 rooms, hall, cellar under rear part of house, pantry, front vestibuls, & 4 closets.

Keeper & family in 1 part, assistant & family in other part, also 2nd asst. has a room in house.

2 privies; 1 brick & 1 frame, wood; summer kitchen, old fog signal used as barn; old stone oilhouse, log ice house near boathouse.

1 privy natural red brick, red metal slate roof other is white, red roof. kitchen tar paper & weathered, barn white; oilhouse whitewashed.

750 ft. concrete walk & 750 feet wood walk

None.

About 500 sq. ft. in rear of dwelling. Not good, p

All of reservation except immediately around buildings.

None.

Soil is gravel & disintegrated limestone with numerous large boulders over whole area. Limestone boulders & underlying bed rock.

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