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KEEPER'S HOUSE, SOUTHWEST FRONT - Portland Head Light, Portland Head, approximately 1-2 mile East of Shore Road, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME
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KEEPER'S HOUSE, SOUTHWEST FRONT - Portland Head Light, Portland Head, approximately 1-2 mile East of Shore Road, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME
Description
U.S. Coast Guard; Nichols, John; Bryant, Jonathan; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Dana, Sally, field team; Goiran, Philip, field team; Baldwin, Jennifer, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Kingsbury, Martha, historian; Myers, Denys Peter, historian; Reeves, F Blair, historian; Jahncke, Davis L, delineator; Benninger, Christopher C, delineator; Creek, Richard, photographer
Depicted place Maine; Cumberland County; Cape Elizabeth
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 ME,3-CAPEL,2-5
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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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  • Site contains fog signal house, fog bells and fog whistle house.
  • Significance: One of only four lighthouses authorized by President Washington, Portland Head Light was the first lighted by the federal government. Although altered in height, it has never been rebuilt. It attracts more than 60,000 visitors a year and is perhaps the best known and most photographed lighthouse on the northeast coast.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-68
  • Survey number: HABS ME-123
  • Building/structure dates: 1787-1790 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1813 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1855 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1865 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1883-1885 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1891 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/me0026.photos.087748p
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