Photograph of Stannard Rock Light — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stannard Rock Lighthouse

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Stannard Rock Light is a lighthouse located on a reef that was the most serious hazard to navigation on Lake Superior. The exposed crib of the Stannard Rock Light is rated as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Stannard Rock Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1883, by Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Godfrey Weitzel.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
When was it built? 1883
Architect. Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Godfrey Weitzel
National Register reference number. 73000953 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000953 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marquette County	All 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.