Report for Two Harbors (Minnesota) - 1910
| General |
| District: | 11th |
| Inspector: | Oliver G. Brown |
| Location: | On point of land separating Agate & Burlington Bays, entrance to Two Harbors, Minn. N'ly shore of the W'ly end of Lake Superior |
| Date of Report: | 09/11/1910 |
| Latitude: | 47° 00' 50" |
| Longitude: | 91° 39' 49" |
| Premises |
| Site: | Purchase in lot 3, Sec. 6, T. 52 N. R 10 W. M. |
| Date of Reservation: | |
| Date of Deed: | 03/07/1891 |
| Date of Permission: | |
| Date of Lease: | |
| Area of the Entire Site: | 1 acre & 2 narrow strips totaling 9,875 sq. ft. |
| Area Inclosed: | One acre |
| Character of Soil: | Trap rock |
| Distance of tower from Nearest High-Water Mark: | |
| Inclosures to Premises / Type of Fence: | Page wire fence surrounds entire premises |
| Wharf or Landing on Premises: | Timber crib landing about 450' W'ly from tower. |
| Road to Land or Wharf Chararacter of and Distance: | Tramway leads from fog signal to landing. |
| Means to Reach Light Station: | Light-station is located in town of Two Harbors, Minn. |
| Distance to Nearest Road: | Duluth & Iron Range RR & Booth Dock at Two Harbors |
| Distance to Post Office: | Light-station is located in town of Two Harbors, Minn. |
| Distance to Village: | Light-station is located in town of Two Harbors, Minn. |
| Facilities for Public Conveyance: | |
| Facilities for Private Conveyance: | Light-station is located in town of Two Harbors, Minn. Duluth & Iron Range RR & Booth Dock at Two Harbors |
| Means Used for Support of Lantern: | Tower |
| Number of Separate Lights: | 1 |
| First Built or Established: | 1892 |
| Last Rebuilt, Repaired, or Renovated: | |
| Condition at This Date: | Good |
| Shape of Tower in Plan: | Square |
| Form of Tower: | Square prism |
| Height from Base to Ventilator Ball: | 49' 6" |
| Height of Focal Plane Above Mean High Water: | 78' |
| Background of Lighthouse as Seen from Sea: | Wooded |
| Color of Tower: | Natural red brick color |
| Color of Tower/ How Produced: | |
| Tower Connection: | Tower rises from SW corner of Keeper's dwelling |
| Object of Navigation: | |
| Building Materials: | Brick lined inside with wooden ceiling. |
| General Description: | |
| Wall Thickness at Base: | 10" Outer wall; 2" air space; 4" inner wall. |
| Wall Thickness at Parapet: | 10" Outer wall; 2" air space; 4" inner wall. |
| Diameter at Base: | 12' 8" |
| Diameter at Parapet: | 12' 8" |
| Kind of Stairway and Steps: | Wooden winding stairs |
| Number of Landings: | 3 landings & lantern floor |
| Size of Glass: | 15 & 18; 4 circular 14" diam. |
| Number of Windows and Size of Sash: | 1 double window; lower sash 45" x 18 3/4"; upper 17" x 18 3/4" |
| Number of Doors: | |
| Kind of Foundation and Depth Below Surface: | Solid rock formation |
| Character of Soil Surrounding the Lighthouse: | Outcropping trap rock - sod in some places. |
| Soil Susceptibility: | Grass & trees grown in some places. |
| Miscellaneous Remarks: | Additional deed, Feb. 14, 1902. Square red brick tower rising from SW corner of 2-story red brick dwelling. |
| Lantern and Fixtures |
| Order of Lantern: | 4th |
| Shape of Lantern: | Polygonal |
| Diameter to Glass: | 7' |
| Diameter in the Clear: | |
| Number of Sides: | 8 |
| Type of Bars: | Vertical |
| Thickness of Bars: | |
| Height Glazed: | 3' |
| Number of Plates in Height: | 1 |
| Number of Plates Each Side: | 1 |
| Thickness of Plates: | 5/16" |
| Size of Plates: | 34" x 36" |
| Number of Storm Panes: | None |
| Unglazed Side of Lantern: | All sides are glazed |
| What Bearings: | |
| Construction Material Lantern: | Lower part cast iron lined with steel plates; Upper wrought iron |
| Construction Material Roof / Cowl: | Cast iron pyramidal roof - lined with sheet zinc inside. No lens protector |
| Ventilator / Cowl: | Cast iron |
| Lightning Spindle: | Copper with platinum tip |
| Description of Lightning Rod: | 2" x 1/8" copper strip attached to gallery floor & runs down outside of tower into rocks below. |
| Balustrade: | 3 rails. 2" x 1/2" iron bars. Vertical spindles between 2 lower rails. Vert. stanchions with ball tops. Floor is cast iron & square in plan |
| Lantern Doors: | Double fold iron door leads from parapet to outer gallery |
| Floor of Lantern: | Cast iron floor - iron trap door leads down steps to service room. |
| Watchroom Doors: | No door. |
| Parapet Diameter: | 6' 7 1/4" |
| Ventilators |
| Location / Number: | 4 ventilators in lower part of lantern |
| Ladders / Cleaning Arrangement: | None |
| Curtain Hooks / Hanger: | Hooks screwed to soffit. |
| Watchroom |
| How is Watchroom Fitted: | Equipped with wooden cupboard & 2 sets of shelves used for storing lamps &c. Lighted with 4 circular windows that swing inside. Iron ladder leads up to lantern. |
| How is Relief Called: | Electric wire connected to clock work gives signal to keeper when machinery stops |
| Where is Call System Led: | Wire leads down inside of tower & bell is placed in hall at 1st floor. |
| Illuminating Apparatus |
| Kind of Apparatus: | 4 hours 30 min. |
| Intensity in Candles: | |
| Name of Maker: | USLHE |
| Year Made: | |
| Marks and Number: | 415 |
| Order of Apparatus: | 4th |
| Inside Diameter: | |
| Light Characteristic: | Red flash every 5 secs. |
| Time of Revolution: | 20 secs. |
| Flash Interval: | 5 sec. |
| Duration of Flash: | |
| Arc of Each Fixed Part: | No fixed part |
| Number of Panels: | 4 |
| Number of Flash Panels: | 4 |
| Arc of Each: | |
| Number of Elements in Central Drum: | Each panel is made of bulls-eye of 3 concentric circular elements |
| Number of Prisms Above Center Drum: | 6 |
| Number of Prisms Below Center Drum: | 4 |
| Does Apparatus Revolve?: | True |
| Is There a Revolving Belt?: | False |
| Revolving Panels: | |
| How Flash is Produced: | Vertical shaft fastened to lens & connected to clockwork causes the lens to revolve. |
| Number of Vertical Elements Panel: | |
| Fixed Lens Covered: | |
| Pedestal: | Upper table brass supported by 4 cyl. brass legs & rotating upon another brass table also supported by 4 brass legs & resting on lantern floor. Lower table supports clock case. |
| Service Table: | No service table |
| Draft Tube Description: | None |
| Revolving Machinery: | Clock machinery drives a vertical shaft in center of pedestal, which is fastened to base of lens |
| Standby and Description: | |
| Chariot Float or Balls: | Ball |
| Chariot Description: | |
| Length of Drop Tube: | Full length of tower to 1st floor. Wooden drop tube 14" sq. |
| Clock Weight: | |
| Length of Winding Time: | 4 hours 30 min. |
| Drive During Rewind: | |
| Machinery Protection: | Brass bound case with glass panels |
| Regulated: | Fan governors |
| Lens Protection: | |
| How Color is Produced: | Ruby screens hung outside of flash panels of lens & totally covering them. |
| Red Sectors Description: | |
| Where Color Attached: | Illuminating apparatus |
| Form of Colored Glass: | |
| Lamp Description: | 4th order oil vapor lamp & 4th ord. Funk Hp. Note: base of lens is equipped with set of helical lugs so lens can be raised to take weight off balls when not in motion. |
| Type of Illuminant: | |
| Number of Spare Lamps: | |
| Number of Spare Burners: | |
| Candle Power: |
| Clock Cord Description |
| Revolving Cord: | Wire cable |
| Size of Clock Cord: | 1/4" |
| Length of Clock Cord: | |
| How Led: | Wound around drum in clock case, runs down thro lantern floor over 2 sheaves, thro pulley to which weights are attached & thence to sheave in top of drop tube. |
| Diameter and Length of Clock Drum: |
| Chariot Balls |
| Balls Description: | Semi-circular |
| Cage to Separate Balls: | False |
| Number of Balls: | 20 |
| Diameter of Balls: | 1/2" |
| Vapor Oil Lamp |
| Number of Wicks or Mantels: | |
| Diameter of Outside Wick: | 1-1/2" |
| Diameter of Mantel: | |
| Diameter of Circum Circle: |
| Closets and Store Rooms |
| Tower Closet Use: | 1 cupboard in service room directly under lantern |
| Oil House Description: | 75' W of tower |
| Oil House Inside Dimension: | 7' x 5' 4" x 8' high |
| Oil House Construction Material: | Brick |
| Oil House Capacity: | |
| Other (Describe): | 4 closets on 2nd floor of keeper's dwelling also cellar; 1 closet on 1st floor & 1 on 2nd floor of asst. keeper's dwelling. |
| Suitability: |
| Fog Signal General |
| Fog Signal Kind: | 10" steam whistle |
| Time to Start: | 30 min. |
| How Long Will Pressure Last: | |
| Manufacturer: | |
| Year of Manufacture: | |
| Characteristic: | 5 sec blast 17 sec silent; 5 sec blast 33 sec silent |
| Duplication: | |
| Timing Device: | Spur & worm gear operating cam |
| If whistle, siren, or trumpet, Pressure at Which Blown: | Whistle at 75# |
| Height Above Water: | |
| Compass Direction: | |
| Location: | Located about 100' SSW from lighthouse |
| Distance and Direction: | |
| Water Supply: | Fire plug draws water from cisterns near lake. |
| Reached from Lighthouse: | By concrete walk - about 100' |
| Description of Fog Signal Building: | Corrugated iron bldg. & roof of same material - 22' x 40' in plan - inside lined with sheet iron - brick foundation. |
| Pressure And Recording Gauge: |
| Steam Signal |
| Steam Boiler: | |
| Kind: | Standard locomotive |
| Tube: | Tubuler |
| Dimensions: | Ht. 5' 3-1/2" |
| Length: | 15' 6" |
| Diameter: | 3' 10" |
| Tube Description: | 58 tubes 8' long |
| Steam Tube Diameter: | 2-1/2" |
| Steam Furnace Kind: | Locomotive |
| Furnace Length: | 5' |
| Furnace Width: | 3' 3-1/4" |
| Furnace Height: | 3' 11" |
| Steam Heat Surface: | 371 sq. ft. |
| Steam Grate Surface: | 16-1/4 sq. ft. |
| Number of Grate Bars: | 16 |
| Kind of Grate Bars: | Double 58" long |
| Steam Fuel: | Soft |
| Steam Safety Valve: | Lever, 2-1/2" valve, single side outlet. |
| Steam Maximum Pressure: | 150# |
| Steam Working Pressure: | 75# |
| Steam Diameter of Smokestack: | 20" |
| Smokestack Height: | 40' brick chimney |
| Drum Dimension: | 4' long |
| Steam Drum Diameter: | 30" |
| Steam Covering: | Compound |
| Steam Boiler Condition: | Good |
| Steam Boiler Built: | 1892 |
| Where Built: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Manufacturer: | Variety Iron Works |
| Steam Heater: | True |
| Kind: | Gurney 402 |
| Size: | |
| Heater Time Affect: | |
| Steam Engine Kind: | Vertical |
| Steam Engine Revolutions: | 120 rpm |
| Steam Engine Cyl. Diameter: | 4" |
| Steam Engine Piston Stroke: | 9" |
| Steam Engine Pipe Size: | 3/4" |
| Steam Engine When Built: | |
| Steam Engine Where Built: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Manufacturer: | Thos, Manning & Co. |
| Whistle Signal |
| Whistle Diameter: | 10" |
| Whistle Height: | 18" |
| Whistle Orifice: | 2-3/8" to 2-11/16" |
| Whistle Tone: | Single |
| Whistle Chime: |
| Dwelling |
| Location: | Tower rises from roof of dwelling |
| Coloring: | Red |
| Construction Materials: | Brick |
| Number of Rooms: | 6 |
| Number of Dwellings: | 1 |
| Heating Plant: | |
| Number of Keepers: | Keeper & family & 2nd asst. |
| Furnished Quarters: | |
| NOT Furnished Quarters: | |
| Outhouses: | Barn, privy, oil house, boat house & power house. |
| Outhouse Coloring: | Red |
| Paths and Walks: | Concrete walks lead from dwelling to all outhouses except barn. |
| Area Inclosed: | 1 acre enclosed by wire fence |
| Area of Garden: | 1/10 acre |
| Area Timber or Shrubbery: | None |
| Cultivation Area Available: | 1/10 acre |
| Area Cultivated: | 1/10 acre |
| Character of Surroundings: | Rocky |
| Stove, Maker: | |
| Stove, Size: | |
| Sink, Maker: | |
| Sink, Size: | |
| Pump, Maker: | |
| Pump, Size: | |
| Lamps: |
| Assistant Keepers Dwellings |
| Location: | |
| Coloring: | Yellow |
| Construction Materials: | Frame |
| Number of Rooms: | 5 |
| Heating Plant: | |
| Number of Keepers: | 1st asst & family |
| Outhouses: | Barn, privy, oil house, boat house & power house. |
| Outhouse Coloring: | Red |
| Paths and Walks: | Concrete walks lead from dwelling to all outhouses except barn. |
| Area Inclosed: | 1 acre enclosed by wire fence |
| Area of Garden: | 1/10 acre |
| Area Timber or Shrubbery: | None |
| Cultivation Area Available: | 1/10 acre |
| Area Cultivated: | 1/10 acre |
| Character of Surroundings: | Rocky |
| Stove, Maker: | |
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| Sink, Maker: | |
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| Lamps: |
| Water |
| How Procured: | Drawn from lake into cistern by fire plug from fog signal boiler. |
| Quality: | Good |
| Quantity: | Ample |
| Injury Possible: | No |
| Purity Precaution: | No rain water - cistern is used for supply of drinking water & domestic purposes |
| Tank Capacity: | 1 cistern under Keepers dwelling & 1 in rear of assts. |
| Tank Material: | Brick lined with cement |
| Distilling Apparatus: | False |
| Distilling Manufacturer: | |
| Well Description: | Well has been cut in rocks |
| Well Diameter: | 10' |
| Well Lining: | Double plank floor |
| Pump or Bucket: | Pumped into cisterns by injector |
| What Power Used: | Fog signal boiler. |
| Distance from Dwelling: | About 180' S of fog signal bldg |
| Healthfulness |
| General Opinion: | Healthfulness excellent |
| Diseases: | None |
| Prevalency: | |
| Local Causes: | |
| Recommended Improvements: |
| Miscellaneous |
| Access to Lighthouse: | Tramway leads from fog signal to boat landing. Boat house is frame building 11' x 17' in plan & is on shore of Bay about 1/8 mile NW from Keeper's dwelling - Boat house is not on lighthouse property. |
| Distance and Direction: | Boathouse about 1/8 mile NW from lighthouse. Landing is about 1/8 mile W of fog signal. |
| Miscellaneous Remarks: | Tower & buildings are in good condition. Tower is approached only from 2nd floor of Keeper's dwelling - outside door leads to lower hall. Each of the rooms in tower are lined with wooden vertical ceiling & all have wooden floors. |
| Hoisting Engines |
| Hoisting Engine Kind: | Horizontal engine housed in 1 end of power house |
| Engine RPMs: | |
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| Engine Boiler: | Steam is taken from fog signal boilers |
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| Hoist Starter: | |
| Hoist Miscellaneous: |