Report for Cedar Point Front Range (Michigan) - 1909

General
District: 11th
Inspector: Ralph R. Tinkham
Location: On S'ly shore of St. Mary's River at Cedar Point, MI., & about 1 mile ESE of Round Island.
Date of Report: 07/30/1909
Latitude: 46° 26' 18.8"
Longitude: 84° 30' 09.1"
Premises
Site: Reservation. NE fr. 1/4 of SW 1/4 & NW 1/4 of SE fr. 1/4 of Sec. 25, T 47 N, R2 W, Mich. mer.
Date of Reservation: 01/03/1886
Date of Deed:
Date of Permission:
Date of Lease:
Area of the Entire Site: 73.9 acres
Area Inclosed: None
Character of Soil: Sand on lake front, remainder is swamp.
Distance of tower from Nearest High-Water Mark: 30'
Inclosures to Premises / Type of Fence: None
Wharf or Landing on Premises: Log crib boat landing
Road to Land or Wharf Chararacter of and Distance: Board walk from dwelling.
Means to Reach Light Station: By boat only, either from Sault Ste. Marie or Brimley - by launch or tug.
Distance to Nearest Road: RR station at Brimley, MI., 4 miles by water. Steamboat landing at Sault, 10 miles.
Distance to Post Office: 4 miles to Brimley.
Distance to Village: 4 miles to Brimley.
Facilities for Public Conveyance: None
Facilities for Private Conveyance: By launch from Brimley or tug from Sault Ste. Marie, or by tender.
Means Used for Support of Lantern: Tower
Number of Separate Lights: 1
First Built or Established: 1887
Last Rebuilt, Repaired, or Renovated:
Condition at This Date:
Shape of Tower in Plan: Square, octagonal top.
Form of Tower: Prismatic
Height from Base to Ventilator Ball: 22'
Height of Focal Plane Above Mean High Water: 21'
Background of Lighthouse as Seen from Sea: Wooded
Color of Tower: White, with black roof
Color of Tower/ How Produced: Paint
Tower Connection: Detached. Tower is about 50' SW'ly of dwelling.
Object of Navigation: Range to guide thru cut btwn Round Island & Point Iroquois.
Building Materials: Wood & enclosed entire height. Ordinary frame construction sheathed inside & out.
General Description:
Wall Thickness at Base: 6"
Wall Thickness at Parapet: 6"
Diameter at Base: 7' 8" sq.
Diameter at Parapet:
Kind of Stairway and Steps: 2 flights of wood stairs reach lantern thru open stairwell in wood floor.
Number of Landings:
Size of Glass:
Number of Windows and Size of Sash:
Number of Doors:
Kind of Foundation and Depth Below Surface: Stone
Character of Soil Surrounding the Lighthouse: Sand
Soil Susceptibility: Not around dwelling. Cleared portion of reservation is covered with huckleberry brush. Rest woods.
Miscellaneous Remarks:
Lantern and Fixtures
Order of Lantern:
Shape of Lantern:
Diameter to Glass: 43 3/4"
Diameter in the Clear: 39 3/4"
Number of Sides:
Type of Bars:
Thickness of Bars:
Height Glazed: 34.5"
Number of Plates in Height:
Number of Plates Each Side:
Thickness of Plates:
Size of Plates:
Number of Storm Panes:
Unglazed Side of Lantern:
What Bearings:
Construction Material Lantern:
Construction Material Roof / Cowl: Pyramidal wood roof, canvas-covered zinc-lined
Ventilator / Cowl: Iron
Lightning Spindle: Iron
Description of Lightning Rod: 1/2" gaspipe from spindle into 6" wrought iron pipe set into ground & filled with coke.
Balustrade: Gallery of wood plank with wood rail & turned posts
Lantern Doors:
Floor of Lantern:
Watchroom Doors:
Parapet Diameter:
Ventilators
Location / Number: 4 ventilators in walls of lantern, of wood with wood slides & protected by wire screens
Ladders / Cleaning Arrangement:
Curtain Hooks / Hanger: Brass hooks screwed to wood lining of soffit


Watchroom
How is Watchroom Fitted: Room in base of tower below lantern is service room, fitted with table & small locker of shelves.
How is Relief Called:
Where is Call System Led:
Illuminating Apparatus
Kind of Apparatus:
Intensity in Candles:
Name of Maker: USLHE Lamp Shop at Staten Island.
Year Made:
Marks and Number:
Order of Apparatus:
Inside Diameter: 11 3/4"
Light Characteristic:
Time of Revolution:
Flash Interval:
Duration of Flash:
Arc of Each Fixed Part: 2 panels fixed each 90 - 180 degrees & opp. 2 spherical segmented brass doors - 180 degrees.
Number of Panels:
Number of Flash Panels:
Arc of Each:
Number of Elements in Central Drum: Central belt - 3 ele above, 3 below.
Number of Prisms Above Center Drum: No prisms
Number of Prisms Below Center Drum:
Does Apparatus Revolve?: False
Is There a Revolving Belt?: False
Revolving Panels:
How Flash is Produced:
Number of Vertical Elements Panel:
Fixed Lens Covered:
Pedestal: Old pattern cast iron
Service Table:
Draft Tube Description:
Revolving Machinery:
Standby and Description:
Chariot Float or Balls:
Chariot Description: Mounted on cross & ring on 4 - 1 3/4" rollers on top of pedestal, locked by brass pin.
Length of Drop Tube:
Clock Weight:
Length of Winding Time:
Drive During Rewind:
Machinery Protection:
Regulated:
Lens Protection: Tin cone
How Color is Produced:
Red Sectors Description:
Where Color Attached:
Form of Colored Glass:
Lamp Description: Double flat wick burner.
Type of Illuminant:
Number of Spare Lamps: 1, & 2 in use.
Number of Spare Burners:
Candle Power:
Closets and Store Rooms
Tower Closet Use: None
Oil House Description: See rear tower
Oil House Inside Dimension:
Oil House Construction Material:
Oil House Capacity:
Other (Describe): 1 closet & pantry, 1st floor of dwelling; 4 closets, 2nd floor.
Suitability: Suitable.
Dwelling
Location: About 50' NE'ly of tower.
Coloring: Dark red.
Construction Materials: Frame construction on stone foundation, metal slate roof.
Number of Rooms: 8 rooms, 5 closets, hall, pantry, vestibule, & cellar under entire house.
Number of Dwellings:
Heating Plant:
Number of Keepers: 1 keeper & family.
Furnished Quarters:
NOT Furnished Quarters:
Outhouses: 8' x 9' wood frame privy on stone foundation, shingle roof; open wood well house, shingle roof; 12' x 14' log barn, board & tar paper roof; board & batten chicken house.
Outhouse Coloring: Privy & well house dark red; barn weathered; chicken house whitewashed.
Paths and Walks: Board walk connecting dwelling to privy, well house, boathouse, front tower & front to rear towers. All this walk is built on posts to raise it above swamp.
Area Inclosed: None
Area of Garden: None
Area Timber or Shrubbery: Btwn 40 & 50 acres in small cedar, tamarack & spruce.
Cultivation Area Available: None
Area Cultivated: None
Character of Surroundings: Swamp underlaid with hardpan on clay. Along front of reservation is beach sand.
Stove, Maker:
Stove, Size:
Sink, Maker:
Sink, Size:
Pump, Maker:
Pump, Size:
Lamps:
Water
How Procured: From well
Quality: Is always murky & is allowed to settle; otherwise good.
Quantity: Ample
Injury Possible: No
Purity Precaution: No cistern
Tank Capacity:
Tank Material:
Distilling Apparatus: False
Distilling Manufacturer:
Well Description: Drive well, 35' deep
Well Diameter:
Well Lining: Wrought iron pipe.
Pump or Bucket: By force pump
What Power Used:
Distance from Dwelling: 30' N of kitchen door.
Healthfulness
General Opinion: Good
Diseases: None
Prevalency: None
Local Causes: Swamp around premises is drained by ditch extending from rear tower to lake, & 2 cross ditches front & rear of dwelling.
Recommended Improvements: Drainage sufficient.
Miscellaneous
Access to Lighthouse: Boathouse, 12' x 36' of vertical boards battened & metal slate roof, all painted red. Fitted with iron winch & roller boatways. Boat landing built of 4 cribs of logs filled with stone & plank-decked on S side of boatways, & 3 similar cribs on N side.
Distance and Direction: Boathouse is 75' W'ly of dwelling.
Miscellaneous Remarks: All cribs, 1 each side, connected by boardwalk. Total length of N landing 75', of S landing 100' from boathouse. N landing not connected to boathouse