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Historic American Buildings Survey COPY OF PHOTOGRAPH IN AERIAL VIEWS OF NANTUCKET BY HENRY LANG, NANTUCKET, 1926 - Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
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Historic American Buildings Survey COPY OF PHOTOGRAPH IN AERIAL VIEWS OF NANTUCKET BY HENRY LANG, NANTUCKET, 1926 - Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA
Depicted place Massachusetts; Nantucket County; Nantucket
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS MASS,10-NANT,73-10
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned in 1818. By 1838 the tower was lighted with fourteen lamps and reflectors arranged in two parallel circles, with whale oil used as fuel. In 1857 the tower was fitted with Fresnel lens, later lighted by incandescent oil-vapor apparatus. By 1959 the light was automated, keeper's quarters and outbuildings razed, and operates on an unattended basis.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-211
  • Survey number: HABS MA-1006
  • Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ma0339.photos.074689p
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