Au Sable Point Lighthouse is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on September 5th, 2016.
Au Sable Point Lighthouse
Located within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, this picturesque lighthouse stands on Au Sable Point on the south shore of Lake Superior,... more
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Au Sable Point Lighthouse
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
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Photograph - Photography
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Located within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, this picturesque lighthouse stands on Au Sable Point on the south shore of Lake Superior, approximately 12 miles west of Grand Marais, Michigan.
Au Sable Point Lighthouse displayed a light for the first time on August 19,1874 and it stands today as a historical landmark.
The Lighthouse Board selected Big Sable Point, named for the towering nearby sand dunes, as the site for this lighthouse, and work at the point commenced in July 1873. A circular brick tower was built atop a cut-stone base with cut-stone lintels and sills. The eighty-six-foot-tall tower tapers from a diameter of sixteen-and-a-half feet at its base to twelve feet, eight inches at the circular gallery that is supported by sixteen cast-iron corbels. A spiral cast-iron stairway leads to the top of the tower where arched windows provide light for the watchroom. A third-order, L. Sautter & Cie. Fresnel lens was installed in the tower's lantern room to produce a fixed white light, which thanks to the lofty bluff on which the lighthouse stands, has a focal plane of 107 feet.
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September 5th, 2016
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