Dwelling

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Frying Pan Island Light Station

Dwelling

Stands 150' NW of tower

green with red roof & red 2nd story

wood frame construction, siding 1st story, & shingles 2nd story, & metal slate roof.

7 rooms, 2 closets, hall, pantry & cellar.

1 keeper & family

1 story house of 2 rooms & pantry (old dwelling) used as summer kitchen. Shingled walls & roof. Boarded privy 4' x 4'. Log hennery.

Old dwelling red with natural shingle roof. Privy, oil house & boat house red; hennery
whitewashed.

Plank walks connecting all buildings. Walks replaced in season of 1909 by 450' of 2.5' concrete slab walk.

none

about 15' square in 2 patches.

Most of island is wooded with small cedar & spruce.

none

None, besides small garden patches.

Island is of limestone gravel formation mixed with boulders.

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