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By an act of Congress on March 3, 1863,\u00a0 $50,000 was appropriated for the purchase of a lot and erection of a suitable building for the federal Lighthouse Establishment.\u00a0 After considering some locations to purchase land for a General Lighthouse Depot,\u00a0 it was decided to save funds by transferring to the U.S. Lighthouse Service some of the Staten Island property already owned by the federal government –\u00a0 the northern half of the 5 acre property of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service on the former Quarantine Grounds. By 1867 the remaining half of the 5 acre plot was transferred to the U.S. Lighthouse Service and several additional buildings were constructed.\u00a0 Some of those buildings still stand as landmarked structures at Light House Point in present day St. George, but they are still waiting to be incorporated into economic development projects. Nevertheless, one of those buildings, the former machine shop, houses the vibrant National Lighthouse Museum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The first storehouse building constructed in 1864 was later known as the Barracks. This image shows the Barracks in 1868. The empty space on the left is where the Administration building was later erected. The structure on the lower right contains the oil vaults. (National Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The the oil vaults were built into the hill (originally a bluff in this area),\u00a0 completed by 1869. The beginnings of a building in the foreground is the Workshop building (also known as the first Lamp Shop building). (National Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Workshop building (also known as the Lamp Shop) was erected in 1868 but fully completed by 1870. This photo is from 1890. (National Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. Lighthouse Service Administration Building, as it appeared in 1884. Construction began in 1869 and was completed in 1870. A north and South wing were added by 1901. (National Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The former Machine Shop is now the National Lighthouse Museum.<\/em> The building next to the Museum is the former “New” Lamp Shop. The National Lighthouse Museum<\/em> is planning to expand into this building.\u00a0 The structure behind the museum is the Accolade<\/em>,\u00a0 a condominium in a gated community at Bay Street Landing<\/em> standing on the former property of the New York State owned quarantine ground. (Photo by author, 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By an act of Congress on March 3, 1863,\u00a0 $50,000 was appropriated for the purchase of a lot and erection of a suitable building for the federal Lighthouse Establishment.\u00a0 After considering some locations to purchase land for a General Lighthouse Depot,\u00a0 it was decided to save funds by transferring to the U.S. Lighthouse Service some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":0,"parent":320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-967","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967\/revisions\/996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/mvdh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}