Nomination for Huron Harbor Light

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10240018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property 2. Location city, town code CH county Erie 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property .buildings K public-Federal X structure Name of related multiple property listing: 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 theproceduralandprofessional requirementsset forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: lentered in the National Register. determined eligible for the National determined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) - Huron Date public-local site private public-State Total Noncontributing object Chio Registration Form state National Register of Historic Places National Register. district See continuation sheet.

historic name Signature of commenting or other official zip code44839 Number of Resources within Property other names/site number N/A State or Federal agency and bureau Light Stations of Ohio Number of contribeting resources previously (Rev. 8-86) N, Vicinity Register. See continuation sheet. Date nf Action the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Materials (enter categories from instructions) Describe present and historic physical appearance. The Huron Harbor Light, owned and operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, is because the tower tapers at this point, project from the tower wall. second-floor port window. The tower is painted white.

Inside, the first floor (designated, on drawings, "machinery room") tower's diaphone fog signal (formerly mounted on the fifth floor, just operates, as it always has, by commercial electric power transmitted from foundation concrete steel walls other Architectural Classification formerly housed the electrically driven air compressors that powered the See continuation sheet (enter categories from instructions) TRANSPCRTATICN: water-related A pipe railing surrounds the base of the tower. 7. Description plastic beacon showing an interval)red light located on the pierhead of the rubble-mound jetty that forms the harbor's Streamline loderne The steel tower, of welded construction, is 60 feet high. fourth, and fifth stories. ground level, a single iron door with strap hinges faces south, toward below the lantern).

modified with a new hatch, lamp support, and pipe railing. square and 10 feet high, giving the tower a focal plane height of 80 feet glass lantern, 5 feet, inches in diameter and glazed to a height of 4 feet, 10 inches, was removed in 1949. That year, the lantern deck was roof west breakwater. allow access for large machinery. Above the door is a rectangular, That equipment has been replaced with electronic fog- The original round bronze and having a nominal range of 12 miles, and a battery-operated back-up are ladders leads to the lantern deck at the top of the tower, where the main The tower is 17 feet,4 inches square at the base;.above the first story, The light breakwater bya flight of concrete steps on the south side of the pedestal. elevation of the first one in each elevation of the 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Cyltyral Affiliation Architect/ Builder C. A. Park and G. B.

Skinner dealt Huron a severe blow, but the city's fortunes rebounded when the Working drawings, prepared in 1934 by the Office of Superintendent of Lighthouses, Eleventh District, Detroit, Michigan, were approved by X See continuation sheet Transportation 1935-36 Architecture Conneaut Harbor West Breakwater Light on Lake Erie--for which a separate National Register nomination has been prepared--and similar to Gravelly Washington Breakwater Light on Lake Michigan, and Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light on Lake Superior.)With its Streamline-Moderne styling and Significant Person latter structure, a pyramidal iron skeleton tower clad with wood and metal, Significant Dates designed in 1934, the Huron Harbor Light is one of six similar stations stood on the old west pierhead at the foot of North Main skeleton towers that now dot the nation's coastlines.

trend of the period and marked the end of traditional lighthouse design. Wheeling &Lake Erie Railroad arrived in Huron via Norwalk in 1882,making light was rebuilt or renovated in 1857 and again in 1900 and 1907; the Xlocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions). State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. efficient steel skin, the Huron Harbor Light mirrored the architectural Such towers could be built cheaply from a standard plan, operated remotely from shore, and required minimal maintenance. rugged, all-steel tower similar to that built at Huron and, eventually, at Chief Engineer" and "G. B. Skinner, Arch.[itectural] Str.

[uctures] Dept." Certitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Shoal Light on Lake Huron, Indiana Harbor East Breakwater Light and Port statewide The harbor nationally Huron an important transshipment point for coal and iron ore. commercial port and shipbuilding center. They presaged the steel Construction of the Milan Canal mound jetty 1,2o0 feet lakeward as part of a harbor-improvement program, built by the Bureau of Lighthouses during the 1930s.(It is identical to A light has marked Huron Harbor since 1835,when the city was a busy OMB Approver No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Huron Harbor light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County Section number - partially assembled at the Buffalo Lighthouse Depot in 1935 and erected at Huron the following year.

The Huron Harbor Light initially was operated by remote control from a PHOTOGRAPHS-HURON HARBOR LIGHT 3) Carol Poh Miller photograph 4) October 1990 5) Ohio Historic Preservation Office 7) #1 of 2 6) South (facade) and west elevations, looking northeast. 7) #2 of 2 Page National Register of Historic Places looking north. one notable change: The original circular lantern with helical bars was the associated historic contexts of "Transportation and Commerce on Lake Harbor the concrete pierhead of the west 1) Huron Harbor Light Ohio NPS Form 10-000-e the Lakeside Bridge & Steel Company of Milwaukee in 1934. The tower was of 8 hours on, 16 off, according to Coast Guard files. (No equipment weather. Harbor traffic today consists largely of pleasure craft.

Principal Lighthouse Engineer F.P.Dillon.Steelwork was fabricated by small brick-faced station on shore equipped with stand-by generators and altered and is not included as apart of this nomination.)The light was Erie,1818-1936" and "Light Stations on the Great Lakes,1819-1939." 9. Major Bibllographiçal References Cleveland, Ohio. Carriers' Association, 1935 ] See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): -preliminary 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 recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Nat'1 Archives & Records Admin.

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

Geographical Data UTM References Verbal Boundary Description square, at the entrance to Huron Harbor. The nominated structure includes the top ten teet of the concrete pierhead, the 50 foot square platform and the light structure. is historically associated with the light structure. 11. Form Prepared By _ date 5/3/91 organization - - telephone 216/692-0747 city or town _ - zip code 44119 Easting Other Northing Local government University Other State agency Boundary Justification Ohio Historic Preservation Cffice Specify repository: street & number 17903 Rosecliff Road has been requested Huron Harbor Light, as it rests on the west breakwater pierhead,5o feet The boundary includes the light station and its foundation. The concrete foundation . state Zone Drawing and photograph files.

United States Coast Guard Ninth District, name/title UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : NOMINATOR: STATE APPEAL:N DATA PROBLEM: N OTHER : N SLR DRAFT: N 6/28/91 PROPERTY DATE 8/12/91 7/31/91 REJECT REVIEWER DISCIPLINE RETURN RECOM./CRITERIA NATIONAL: PDIL: PERIOD: Huron Harbor Light COMMENT WAIVER: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DATE RECEIVED: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: LANDSCAPE: N REQUEST: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : MULTIPLE SAMPLE: Light Stations of Ohio MPS LESS THAN 50 YEARS: _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _historic architectural classification _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _context _other GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _acreage _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION -photographs OTHER COMMENTS 202 -343-4573 FUNCTION materials Period DESCRIPTION _current Builder/Architect BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE CLASSIFICATION _count Signed Phone justification of exception _presentation Specific dates justification of areas checked relationship of integrity to significance Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) relating significance to the resource UTMS Date _sketch maps USGS maps RECEIVED JUL 3 0 199 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: NOMINATOR: STATE PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N REJECT 6/28/91 8/12/91 7/31/91 DATE PROPERTY 7/15/91 DISCIPLINE RETURN REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA PERIOD: OTHER: PDIL: COMMENT WAIVER: Huron Harbor Light DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF PENDING LIST: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATE OF 45TH DAY: SLR DRAFT: N STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Erie ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: MULTIPLE NATIONAL: Light Stations of Ohio MPS STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _architectural classification _descriptive text Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of areas checked _relating significance to the resource _relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA -acreage _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION -photographs - Phone FUNCTION DESCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHY materials OTHER Period Builder/Architect CLASSIFICATION SIGNIFICANCE _current Date _count Specific dates Signed _historic verbal boundary description Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Areas of Significance--Check and justify below resource type _summary paragraph -presentation _context 202-343-9553 UTMs OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps _sketch maps OMB No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service JUN 2 8 1991 (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 1. Name of Property other names/site number NA 2. Location city, town N/ yicinity code CH county Erie zip code44839 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property J public-local _sites X public-Federal X structure Total Name of related multiple property listing: 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 HistoricPlacesand meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official State or Federal agency and bureau 5.

National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Pentered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. determined eligible for the National Jdetermined not eligible for the removed from the National Register. other, (explain:) Huron National Register of Historic Places public-State object Registration Form REGISTER district private NATIONAL state National Register. Chio Noncontributing building(s) historic name Huron Harbor Light Date of Action Light Stations of Ohio NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. 8-86) This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the requested information.

If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials, XI nomination Lrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the ignature of commenting or ether officia and areas of significance, enter only the categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets Date 6-24-91 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) TRANSPORTATION: water-related 7. Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) (enter categories from instructions) Streamline hoderne The Describe present and historic physical appearance. breakwater by a flight of concrete steps on the south side of the pedestal. second-floor port window.

The tower is painted white. Inside, the first floor (designated, on drawings, "machinery room") formerly housed the electrically driven air compressors that powered the ladders leads to the lantern deck at the top of the tower, where the main light, a plastic beacon showing an isophase (equal interval) red light operates, as it always has, by commercial electric power transmitted from concrete foundation steel roof walls A pipe railing surrounds the base of the tower. Architectural Classification See continuation sheet having a nominal range of 12 miles, and a battery-operated back-up are tower's diaphone fog mounted on the fifth The Huron Harbor and operated by the U.S.Coast with t-inch boiler plate. There are two small port windows in each fourth, and fifth stories. shore by mounted without protection from weather.

The light located on the pierhead of the rubble-mound jetty that forms the harbor's It is mounted on a concrete pedestal atop a concrete base slab 50 feet square and 10 feet high, giving the tower a focal plane height of 80 feet Those in the second story are larger and, feet, 10 inches, was removed in 1949.That year, the lantern deck was because the tower tapersat this from the tower wall.At glass lantern,5 feet,11t inches in diameter and glazed to a height of 4 8.

Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above efficient steel skin, the Huron Harbor Light mirrored the architectural dealt Huron a severe blow, but the city's fortunes rebounded when the rugged, all-steel tower similar to that built at Huron and, eventually, at X See continuation sheet Transportation Architecture 1935-36 National Register nomination has been prepared--and similar to Gravelly Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad arrived in Huron via Norwalk in 1882,making designed in 1934, the Huron Harbor Light is one of six similar stations Conneaut Harbor West Breakwater Light on Lake Erie--for which a separate Cultyral Affiliation A light has marked Huron Harbor since 1835,when the city was a busy skeleton towers that now dot the nation's coastlines.

trend of the period and marked the end of traditional lighthouse design. light was rebuilt or renovated in 1857 and again in 1900 and 1907; the Certifying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Xlocally Criteria Considerations (Exceptions). Significant Date: Park and G. B. Skinner Washington Breakwater Light on Lake Michigan, and Keweenaw Waterway Upper commercial port and shipbuilding center. least five other locations on the Great Lakes, bears the names "C. A. Park, Lighthouses, Eleventh District, Detroit, Michigan, were approved by "Proposed Remote Control Pierhead Station for the Great Lakes," depicting a Architect/Builder Entrance Light on Lake Superior.)With its Streamline-Moderne styling and Chief Engineer" and "G.

B.'Skinner, Arch.[itectural] Str.[uctures] Dept." Working drawings, prepared in 1934 by the Office of Superintendent of Construction of the Milan Canal latter structure, a pyramidal iron skeleton tower clad with wood and metal, Such towers could be built cheaply from a standard plan, operated remotely stood on the old west pierhead at the foot of North Main Street.(The mound jetty 1,2oo feet lakeward as part of a harbor-improvement program, OMB Approvel No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number - The Huron Harbor Light initially was operated by remote control from a Harbor Light is significant under Criteria A and C for its association with PHOTOGRAPHS-HURON HARBOR LIGHT 1) Huron Harbor Light 2) Huron, Ohio 4) October 1990 5) Ohio Historic Preservation Office 6) Huron Harbor Light, on the concrete pierhead of the west breakwater, 7) #1 of 2 7) $2 of 2 Page National Register of Historic Places looking north. Continuation Sheet Huron the following year. one notable change:The original circular lantern with helical bars was Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County small brick-faced station on shore equipped with stand-by generators and This property meets the requirements for registration set forth in the NPS Form 10-000e remains.

the associated historic contexts of "Transportation and Commerce on Lake Cleveland, Ohio. Carriers' Association, 1935. - See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): -preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: State historic preservation office previously listed in the National Register Other State agency previously determined eligible by the National Register LX Federal agency designated a National Historic Landmark Local government recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Specify repository: Record # Nat'1 Archives & Records Admin. 10. Geographical Data UTM References Verbal Boundary Description Huron Harbor Light, as it rests on the west breakwater pierhead, 50 feet square, at the entrance to Huron Harbor.

The nominated structure includes is historically associated with the light structure. 11. Form Prepared By name/title - Ohio Historic Preservation Office city or town - _state- - zip code 44119 Easting Northing Boundary Justification street & number 17903 Rosecliff Road 9.Major Bibliographical References has been requested Other _ telephone 216/692-0747 organization . Annual Report 1935. Cleveland, O.: Lake The boundary includes the light station and its foundation. The concrete foundation Carol Poh mIller/Historical Consultant - under contract with Drawing and photograph files. United States Coast Guard Ninth District, A 17 1317019,5,0 University Zone Lake Carriers'Association. Acreage of property less than one Chio Huren Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County. DETROIT, MICH. ELEVATIONS AND PLANS ASST. SUPERINTENDENT. L. H. ENGINEER. PRINCIPAL L. H. ENG'R.

Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County 1 DRAWN SHEET ALTERNATES ELEVENTH DISTRICT OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTHOUSES APPROVED3-/3-34 PIERHEAD TOWER FOR GREAT LAKES DR'G, TRACED_ARK ARK Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County 5375 or 500 /n Lens Concrete Slab 6"" FLOOR PLAN 3RD FLOOR PLAN FOR 40 FT. ToWER Checkered Plate 5TH FLOOR PLAN FOR 60 FT. TOWER OPEN Movab'e Aecess Door LAN Concrete Slab 3RD FLOOR PLAN 2nd Floor ~ Concrete Gutter- 50' TOWER IVD 5TH FLOORS Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie Count SMach'y Vent SECTION Apparatus First Floor ectional Suspended Sheet Metal Condensalio, Canopy Over Elec. (U. 3. Gout to furnish) AND SO TOWERS SIMiLAR) OWER ADD A IOFOOT SECTION AT 5TH FL. Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County Focal Plane 4 TH FLOOR PLAI Ladder TypeF Diaphone Plate Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County Column Snteh Board .

Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County Door ELEVATION FACING FOG SIGNAL 375 or Lens Same on Other 3 dio Ports Sde Louvres Focal Plane l Huron Harbor Light, Huron, Ohio, Erie County Vent 414 dia.Port NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: NOMINATOR: STATE DETAILED EVALUATION: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N 91000971 DATE 12/27/91 11/12/91 PROPERTY REVIEWER RETURN RECOM./CRITERIA DISCIPLINE ACCEPT Huron Harbor Light UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Regiate DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES DATE OF PENDING LIST: uintered in the EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET MULTIPLE Light Stations of Ohio MPs _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _current _architectural classification _materials _summary paragraph _completeness _clarity _applicable criteria _justification of areas checked _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 _USGS maps _photographs -presentation Period FUNCTION DESCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHY SIGNIFICANCE CLASSIFICATION Builder/Architect historic Date Phone _context Specific dates OTHER COMMENTS Signed _count _sketch maps Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Statement of Significance one paragraph) UTMs descriptive text ERIE Co., OH HURON HARBOR LIGHT ERIE Co., OH OHIO-ERIE CO DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC 1969 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES N4122.5w8230/7.5 HURON QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO COMMERCIAL SURVEY CU HURON, OHIO Ohio Historic Preservation Office JUN 2 8 1991 Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 SINCE 1885 Ms.

Carol Shull, Chief National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Department of the Interior P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Sig's General Store Rinderknecht, Christian H. House Please contact me if you have any questions. W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer WRL/ jw: dh SOCIETY Montgomery County Tuscarawas 614/297-2470 HISTORICAL nrohp/trans.rev REGISTER NATIONAL Fax:297-2411 Erie Enclosures New Submissions Sachs and Pruden Ale Company Huron Harbor Light Dear Carol: