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LIGHTHgYSES OF MASSACHUTS THEMATIC GAGUR NOMIRUSETTS IUM LIGHTHOUSE INFORMATION FORM MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 PHOTOGRAPH KEY Leslie Fox - MHC - 7/1981 1) Tower and house from parking lot (facingeast) 2) Tower and house (facing west) Jack Clarke - CCPDC-1980 3) Tower & House (facing east) SKETCH MAP Coast Guard Brach Nauset Beach Light house cablerd. ZORK6 ATLANTIC ocean RECORDED BY:_N.L. Salzman/J. Clarke ORGANIZATION: MHC/Cape Cod Planning DATE: July 22, 1981 NUMBER 27 HISTORIC NAME: Nauset Beach Light TOWN: Eastham LOCATION:_At the end of the road to Nauset Beach. COUNTY: Barnstable CODE: 001 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:_ 12th LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Barnstable County Courthouse Book 973, P. 385 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION: Please refer to the attached assessor's map.
LAT./LONG.: 4155'59'N 69°53'48'W UTM COORDINATE: 19/421/000/4633/800: USGS QUADRANGLE: Prov. RI., Mass., Conn. SCALE: 1:250,000 ACREAGE: 1 acre OWNER (S): tower: U.S. Coast Guard First Coast Guard District 408 Atlantic Ave, Boston 02210 remainder: Ms. Miriam Rowel. Nauset Light Road, Easthan STATUS: Urmanned/Active LICH,HOUSES UF MASSAONUSEHS MATIC GROUP NOMINATION Lighthouse #F27 page 1 SITE DESCRIPTION Nauset Beach Light is located 66' above water level on a bluff over looking the Atlantic Ocean at Eastham on Cape Cod. The triple light worked in concert with the twin light at Chatham (#11) and single light at Highland (# 20), Truro. There is a history of erosion of the bluffs so that this tower is the third structure to mark the site. Below is Coast Guard Beach and parking lot.
- VOULU VI MIAUOHUMUSEI IHEMATIC GROUP NOMINATIUN Lighthouse #27 Ma jor Elements Description page 2 An 1877 cylindrical cast iron tower (moved to the site in 1923 from Chatham), an 1892 brick oil house with cupola and an 1875 wood frame Keeper's House, altered, 1923 garage attached. Exterior: Measurements identical with its twin at Chatham where it stood until it was moved in 1923. Colored as daymark, L1-3, white L4-5 red. Lightning strap sided, concrete Door - iron, segmental arch Windows - 3; 2/2 sash windows, one at each level, Italianate hood supported on consoles, 4 portholes at L4-5; two open, two sealed Lens kooms - 10 sides, standard ventilator ball surmounting cast iron roof and supporting lighting rod Balcony - simple: square metal post, 3 tubular rails Interior: Door - wooden, four panel, typical 1870's. Separated from outside iron door by wooden arch.
Arch - 15" deep and 5" frame. 32, 2/4" wide and frame, 10" Floor - cement Windows - segmental, 2/2 sash, Interior 36" wide, 45" high (standard). Lowest: set 6 1/2" into wall, 8 1/2" sill, 4" wooden frame. Middle: 5 1/2" into wall, 3" sill, 4" wooden frame. Top: set 5 1/2 into wall, 3" sill, 4" wooden frame. Lens Room - Tower half cast iron with 41" scuttle door to balcony. Upper half contains 10 panels: . 1 iron, 2 frosted, 7 lexan; 26 1/2" x 36" standard size panes. Vent: interior = round opening with periscope housing exterior - standard narrow, framed rectangular slot. Balcony - 50" wide. Railing formerly single rail, Italianate post. New rail is a tubular iron rail on simple post.
LIGHT CHARACTERISTICS: Original lens now at Salt Pond Visitor Center, National Seashore Park, Eastham, 4th Ordr Fresnel, 20,000 candlepower, niles visibility by pendulum weight on a cable with 6 hour cycle. Kerosene ignited the incandescent oil vapor light. 6/4/1981 - 2 quartz diode bulbs set in DCB 224 Tantern. 6rpm, alt. red and white flashes/5 sec. 190mm lens Cat II, 181 fixed,. 1.16A Tamp. 19 mi. range. Keeper's House: built in 1875, it was located between the two southernmost brick Tighthouses. Typicaot Rval2 story wood frame house, L shaped, cross gable plan. An 1875 photo shows prominent vergeboards. A11 windows are of triple configuration with narrow sidelights. All had molded hoods with tabs. An 1892 photo shows the vergeboard still intact, tab son ens sine comenaet to holise af enciosed resi poreh, and to now dli ngitstem tower. East porch, with chamfered posts intact.
LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUSETTS THEMATIC GROUP NOMINATION Lighthouse #27 page 3 1923 - waTkway removed, house moved back, new brick cellar. 1957 - purchased by Howells. Walls and doors altered. Some original cabinets remain, as do original staircase and curved staircase wall. Exterior shingles 0il House: 1892. 11' x 9'4". Brick with slate roof and wooden trim. Unusual 3 light transom above modern door. Cupola intact. Lighthouse #27 page 4 LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUSETTS THEMATIC GROUP NOMINATION CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY 1838 - 3 brick lighthouses plus keepers house purchased for $150 from Sally and Ben jamin H.A. Collins, erected for $7050.01 1875 - two frame keeper's houses and oil house erected 1892 - 3 wooden lighthouses replace brick tower lost to erosion; middle tower attached to keeper's house by walkway. 1911 - two wooden towers removed.
The remaining tower, The Beacon, fitted with characteristics triple light. 1923 - third tower, The Beacon, removed along with walkway. Northernmost Chatham Light removed to a site east of wooden light but south of Keeper's Dwelling. Moved in seven sections. Bricks for dwelling cellar brought up by barge. Garage built. 5/14/1957 - property purchased by Mr./Mrs. Lucien Howell. Vergeboard no longer extant on house. Garage extended, addition to west along the side of the walkway entrance. Interior changes to house include walls, windows, and some doorways. 1962 - grey wooden shingles applied to walls of house. 1977 - red asphalt shingles put on roof of house. 1981 - tower cleaned and repainted. Railing replaced with simple post and tubular railings.
Lighthouse #27 page 5 LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUSETTS THEMATIC GROUP NOMINATION LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE Nauset Beach Light possesses integrity of design, setting, materials, and workmanship as well as significant associations with the development of aids to navigation in Massachusetts. The 1877 cast iron tower was moved to Eastham from Chatham in 1923, replacing three earlier wooden towers. Surrounded by a period oil house and keeper's house, it provides a good example of a late nineteenth century station on an earlier site. It meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the state level as well as survey criteria 2a, 2c, 4a. "NPS Form 10-900-a (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp.
10-31-84 For NPS use anly received MAY 4 98T date antered Page 274 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 11. Minot's Ledge Light atered in the Intd:oun1 Rogdster 82. Nauset Beach Light 1 13 Igrset Boglster #3. Ned Point Light aatered in the Matiomel Register 14. Newburyport Harbor Light Sutered in the Mstiomel Bogister *p5. Newburyport Harbor Front Range Light Mationel Regiater {6. Nobska Point Light Stationietered in Mationel Regisiar 17. Race Point Light Station Sankaty Head Light f9. Scituate Light 10. Straightsmouth Island Light tmer traoper Date/Signature Aelarega61518, Attest fkeeper DelmurBga 6/674, Attest fokeeper elmuBgan afotor Attest JKeeper AuluresByen6/151r, Attest keeper dilou Byen 61076, Attest Hoeper dilowByu 6101e.
Attest tn:ped frkeeper DelureByend6es 5B02 Attest Matered 13 Mational Register Hteoper tenaByeuoff7s. Attest Batersd Me blomei Register heeper DelrreByen 6/26 Attest fheeper AelouByen 6/15/187 Attest 87001484 WASO Form - 177 (''R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Nauset Beach Light (Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR) Barnstable County MASSACHUSETTS resubmission nomination by person or local government owner objection appeal Substantive Review: Reviewer's comments: Lsample Lrequest Working No. #28/22 Fed. Reg. Date: 212187 Date Due: _ 4/18/87 Action: ACCEPT 6-/5-8 7 Intered in the _RETURN Aateomal Rogdatier -REJECT Federal Agency: - USCG-DUT Lappeal LJ NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline.
Date _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description yes no Condition Jexcellent good fair deteriorated Jruins _ unexposed Check one -unaltered altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one -original site moved date- 8.
Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name_ UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national state local State Historic Preservation Officer signature title date 13. Other Maps -Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed..
- Date - Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACH THEMATIC GROUP NOMIN Eastham #28 Mausct Beach Light Photo #1 0F3 LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUSE THEMATIC GROUP NOMINATIO Eastham #28 Nauset Beack Photo #ZOF3 #5. NauseT Light house MabseT Light Rd. No EasTham, 10/80 Tack Clarke Eastham #28 Nauset Beach Photo #30F3 LIGHTHQUBES OF MASSACH THEMATIC GROUP NOMIN CAPE COD PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Ist DISTRICT COURI HOUSE BARNSTABLE, MASS. 02630 / #'s 5,6 & 7. Twin Lights & The Beacon NAUSOR IIGHTHOUSE map, Bestzgn f#ses28615 from Town Hall, January, 1978. LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUOCTIS THEMATIC GROUP NOMINATION THIRD STREET 129-32;3IE6171 1-14 103 STREET 129-32; 3IE6173 8 2 1-14 129-32;32E6262 TOWN OF EASTHAM 1-5,8- 10 129-32;32E6265 .59 FIFTH 129- $22 .278 B3.7,8 PLA - - AVE.- C.C.N.S.
204-3l C.C.N.S.- 203-32 N AVE 133H1S 08932525- FOURTH B2 2-5,9,10 129-32; 32E6282 42 .13 NAUSET AVE BI2 128-32; 32E6284 1-7 .66 AVENUE IST. - B E5 B F6 1-8 1.22 129-32;32E6298 0.02 AC. NAUSET LIGHT. MAUSET SECOND B JIO B 19 - 6 1-6 :16 B E5-6,8 AVENUE B LI2 1-6 .61 BKII 1-6 1089328'28-621 B28 3.75 .52 44 AVENUE AN / lcsl IS 129-32;32E6297 815 1,2 .26 129-32; 32E6815/ B 015 1-6 .44 FIRST BEACH B8 1-6 ROAD B9 1-6 C 3835 B1O 1-8 AN 1.04 -120-32; B1E0861 18.32:31E02087 82 1-8 64 82 9-14 44 CABLE 129-32;31E6709 TNAUSY .33 129-32;32/E6830 B6 3 T.22 0.07A 129-32;32E6898 589325 28 44 1S 44 CENTRA (1S CC.N.S. 129-32 SCALE) (100" STHAM JAN.
1, 1980 ASSESSORS MAP 24 AVÊNUE TBD240| TOWN 0.24A HERMAN'S 129-32;32E6898 SCALE - 200 FEET TO A NICKERSON & BERGER, INC - Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000282