Nomination for South Bass Island Light

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The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

IPS Form 10-900 Rev. 8-86 United States Department of the Interior FEB g 2 1990 National Park Service This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines 1. Name of Property other names/site number N/A 2. Location street & number NAnot for publication city, town code county Ottawa zip code43456 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property L4 building(s) A public-State _ sites X structure _ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register - 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Mentered in the National Register. Jdetermined eligible for the National Register. See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. Jother, (explain:) Date of Action Noncontributing Date district public-local public-Federal state object private National Register of Historic Places National Register. Registration Form Ohio NAvicinity historic name (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. See continuation sheet.

Signature of certifying official the requested information.If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, code 123 Anomination Lrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets South Bass Bass Island Light ECEIVE 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions TRANSPORTATION: water-related DOMESTIC: multiple dwelling 7.

Description Architectural Classification Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) other: light station It is Queen Anne Describe present and historic physical appearance. Erie. The historic light station consists of three contributing brick keeper's dwelling, a wood-frame barn and chicken house, and historic light station.

cast-iron lantern, 7 feet in diameter, features vertical bars black, was designed to display a 4th-order Fresnel lens, which lantern, gallery, and stairway came from the Gibraltar, Michigan, (parlor, dining room, kitchen/pantry downstairs; three bedrooms [X See continuation sheet roof The brick asphalt walls voussoirs; a gabled bay projecting to the east has a smaller, gable ends feature three-part round-arch windows with brick and bath upstairs)and a full basement and attic.It has iron gallery,12 feet square,with square iron balustrade.The southwest tip of South Bass Island in the western part of Lake 1. Light Tower and Attached Keeper's Dwelling. Founded on Flemish bond, with a brick foundation and cut stone water table.

Double-hung windows, with 1/1 lights, have plain lug sills and The light tower, located at the southwest (measured from the base to the ventilator ball of the lantern), Inside, an iron circular glazed to a height of 36 inches. The lantern, originally painted Atop the lantern roof, of cast iron lined with zinc, is a cast-iron ventilator ball with platinum dwelling, 39 feet by 30 feet, has a side hall plan with six rooms foundation brick voussoirs. structures:a square brick light tower and attached two-story multiple gable roofs with asphalt shingles. The South Bass Island Light is located on Parker's Point at the NPS Form 10-900-# OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Section number L in the original plans, apparently have been removed.

Drawings of the dwelling to a former barn and chicken house, now remodeled concrete foundation and an intersecting gable roof with exposed boiler-plate construction, is now painted white and located northeast of the former barn. Page white. Continuation Sheet South Bass Island Light,.South Bass Island, Ohio, Ottawa County National Register of Historic Places 2.Barn and Chicken House.A concrete walk leads from the rear originally spanned the front and rear of the dwelling;these have United States Department of the Interior been replaced by enclosed porches. Front and back, there are concrete steps in place of the original wooden as a garage. Erected in 1899, the wood-frame structure has a doors were added later. 3. Oil House. The square iron oil house, originally painted red and located 18.5 feet west of the light tower, was also erected in 1899.

The small pyramidal-roof storage building, of riveted rafter ends. show that hipped-roof verandas with spindle friezes and railings "dark red,"has wood shingles.The barn is now painted white. 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Certitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Point, the southwest tip of South Bass Island, the largest of the style red brick light tower with attached keeper's dwelling built at the height of the island's popularity as a summer reservation to the Board of Trustees of Ohio State University, consists of the brick light tower and attached keeper's dwelling (1897), a former barn and chicken house (1899) now used garage, and an oil storage house (1899).

Although the lighthouse and barn have been remodeled, they retain their essential integrity and the complex conveys the feeling and association of an island light station at the turn of the century.

and "Light Stations on the Great Lakes, 1819-1939." Transportation 1897 Engineering Engineers See continuation sheet Federal Government transferred the two-acre lighthouse contexts of "Transportation and Commerce on Lake Erie,1818-1936" This property meets the requirements for registration set forth which operates a biological research laboratory on the island and Criterion A for its association with the associated historic From 1897 until 1963,the South Bass Island Light marked Parker's Jnationally Lstatewide Elocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Signiticant Person changed to alternately flashing white and red) guided vessels superseded by an automated light mounted on a steel skeleton tower erected southeast of the old lighthouse.

In 1967, the Ohio."The South Bass Island Light is significant under in the multiple property documentation form "Light Stations of through the South Passage around the Lake Erie Islands.In 1963, uses the lighthouse as a residence for faculty.The property resort.A fixed red light 1926,its characteristic was 9.

The rest of the file

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References District, Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio Historical Society, 1971. 30 October 1962. ] See continuation sheet Lpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: State historic preservation office previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register Federal agency designated a National Historic Landmark J Local government recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Trecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # Nat'1 Archives & Records Admin. UTM References Verbal Boundary Description Boundary Justification The boundary includes the area of the historic light station deed referenced above. 11.

Form Prepared By -date 9/28/89 street & number 2940 Somerton Road telephone 216/321-3940 _ state Ohio _ zip code 44118 University Easting Other Cleveland Heights 10. Geographical Data Northing has been requested Other State agency Parcel M-M of Lots 24 and 25,Put-in-Bay Township,South Bass Acreage of property 2.0 Previous documentation on file (NPS): Sandusky April and 28 July December 1959, Bureau of Lighthouses and Its Predecessors, 1789-1939. Island, as described in Ottawa County Deeds Vol. 236, p. 904. Records of the reservation, less a 14-foot-square parcel of land occupied by the Zone reserved in perpetuity to the U.S.Coast Guard per quit claim OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number Photos Page - PHOTOGRAPHS-SOUTH BASS ISLAND LIGHT 2) South Bass Island, vic.

Put-in-Bay, Ohio 4) November 1988 5) Ohio Historic Preservation Office chicken house at left. 6) Facade and east elevation, looking NW 7) #2 of 6 6) Facade, looking north 6) North (rear) elevation, looking SE 7) #4 of 6 6) Barn and chicken house, looking NE 7) #5 of 6 6) Oil house, looking west 7) #6 of 6 (8-86) South Bass Island Light, South Bass Island, Ohio Ottawa County Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places [NOTE:THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS THE SAME FOR ALL PHOTOS.] NPS Form 10-900-e 1) South Bass Island Light 3) Carol Poh Miller photograph 7) #1 of 6 7) #3 of 6 United States Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places Section number - 2. Green Island Light Intered in the 3. Huron Harbor Light 4. Conneaut Harbor West Breakwater Light 5.

Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light COVER Page OHIO Continuation Sheet Ottawa County Date Listed National Park Service 2/22/90 Light Stations of Ohio MPS Substantive Rovien 4/5/90 OMB Approval No.1024-0018 4/10/9 2 OMB Approval No. 102-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number _ SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD Date Listed: 4/5/90 Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. Date of Action Criterion C should be added and that structure is the most amended to implement these changes.

National Register property file Page State Ottawa Continuation Sheet DISTRIBUTION: National Register of Historic Places County Property Name Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) Multiple Name South Bass Island Light Amended Items in Nomination: Light Stations of Ohio MPS This property is listed in the National Register of Historic categories are checked (structure, and building), when only one NRIS Reference Number: 90000473 OHIO 4/5/90 Signatureof the Keeper The form is officially This property is nominated for Engineering as an Area of Ns Form 109000 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL:N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N 4/08/90 2/22/90 3/22/90 DATE REJECT PERIOD: OTHER: SAMPLE: PDIL: DATE RECEIVED: RETURN DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATA PROBLEM: N Historian ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N/see attached SIR Y PROPERTY ACCEPT DISCIPLINE South Bass Island Light _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _historic _current _architectural classification _descriptive text _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance -justification of exception _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _photographs -presentation - Phone FUNCTION Signed materials Period DESCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE CLASSIFICATION Builder/Architect Date justification of areas checked _context Specific dates OTHER COMMENTS _count Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Areas of Significance--Check and justify below _sketch maps USGS maps Statement of Significance one paragraph) UTMS OTTAWA COUNTY, OH JOUTH BASS ISLAND LIGHT SOUTH BASS ISLAND LIGHT OTTAWA COUNTY, OH SOUTH BASS ISLAND LIGHT OTTAWA COUNTY, OH SOUTA BASS ISLAND LIEHT OTTAWA COUNTY, OH SOUTH BASS ISLAND LIGHT OTTAWA COUNTY, OH SOUTH BASS ISLAND LITHT OTTAWA COUNTy,OH UNITED STATES PUT-IN-BAY QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROAD CLASSIFICATION