The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light is one of ten lighthouses the U.S. government is giving away this year.Erik Drost via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0
Posted on 06/09/2023 9:17:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...This year, the General Services Administration (GSA) will give away six of the historic beacons, including the Warwick Neck Light, at no cost. An additional four will be sold via public auction. The goal of the transfers is to preserve the historic buildings, even as technology renders them obsolete...
Since the passage of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act in 2000, the GSA has been transferring ownership of lighthouses... to groups willing to preserve them, according to a statement from the agency...
At many lighthouses, upkeep is challenging: Two of the structures up for auction, the Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Fairfield, Connecticut, and the Stratford Shoal Light in the middle of the Long Island Sound, are accessible only by boat...
For now, the lighthouses won’t be available to just anyone. The GSA is first offering them at no cost to federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofits, educational agencies and community development organizations. To be eligible, interested buyers must be able to maintain the historic property and allow the public to access it. More than 80 lighthouses have found a new owner—and stable future—through this process so far, according to the GSA...
If no owner is found, the lighthouses will be offered for sale to the public via auction. The GSA has auctioned 70 lighthouses to date, in sales ranging from $10,000 to over $900,000, reports NPR’s Emma Bowman.
Other lighthouses going to auction this year include the Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in Chassell, Michigan. The list of transfer-eligible lighthouses includes Lynde Point Lighthouse in Old Saybrook, Connecticut; Plymouth/Gurnet Lighthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts; Little Mark Island and Monument in Harpswell, Maine; and Erie Harbor North Pier Lighthouse in Erie, Pennsylvania.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light is one of ten lighthouses the U.S. government is giving away this year.Erik Drost via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0
I'd put a disco ball up in the top, but hey, I sort of grew up in the 1970s.
I want a missile silo.
“I want a missile silo.”
That would be cool!!
So do I, armed with every conceivable type of missile!
Airbnb gold mine.
Maintenance of such places can be very expensive.
Conservatives need not apply.
WTF is wrong with our government !
NEVER, EVER, EVER VOTE DEMOCRAT AGAIN !
NEEVDA
If someone were looking for a Math formula to estimate how many Illegal Aliens (from Guatemala) could be humanely housed inside the Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse, wonder what that would be? As a hypothetical exercise. Not that such a plan would be any under serious consideration, mind you!
There are likely many interior cubic feet now available for the filling.
The perfect bunker should those aliens turn out to be
Triffids.
I want to be “The Lighthouse Keeper”.
I’ll take one.
Do they deliver?
that’s a tip’er over.
The way the management of our country is going we had better be prepared with some redundancy in navigation, basic communications and energy. As one example these fools eliminated nuclear plants and public telephones that provide redundancy and communications when cell technology in urban areas can becomes insufficient due to excess demand as it did during 9-11.
Airbnb gold mine is right.
Better have really good broadband though.
I’d get one of these, if it were nowhere near all that global warming business, that sounds really scary. /rimshot
“I’ll take one”.
What are you going to do with it?
Flip it?
;)
You can get it, and keep it, as long as you paint the exterior with the LGBTQ+ rainbow fa, er, flag colors.
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