File:Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street and Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI HAER RI,5-NESH,1- (sheet 8 of 12).png
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
This image is a JPEG version of the original TIF image at File: Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street and Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI HAER RI,5-NESH,1- (sheet 8 of 12).tif.
However, any edits to the image should be based on the original TIF version in order to prevent generation loss, and both versions should be updated. Do not make edits based on this version. Admins: Although this file is a scaled-down duplicate, it should not be deleted!
Summary
Warning
The original file is very high-resolution. It might not load properly or could cause your browser to freeze when opened at full size.
HAER RI,5-NESH,1- (sheet 8 of 12) - Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street and Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI
Title
HAER RI,5-NESH,1- (sheet 8 of 12) - Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street and Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI
Description
Ball, Nicholas; Woodruff, I C; Tynan, T H; Paulding,Kemble and Company; Bailey and Debevoise
Depicted place
Rhode Island; Washington County; New Shoreham
Date
Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions
24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER RI,5-NESH,1- (sheet 8 of 12)
Credit line
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.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required.See Commons:Licensing.
Notes
Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It marks the first island landfall for ships approaching New England from the south or southeast. It was the second light to be built on the island and the first on the south side. At the time of its completion in 1875 it was considered to be one of the finest and best equipped lighthouses on the east coast, featuring a first order Fresnel lens, the best in lighting apparatus technology. The lighthouse is also significant for its interesting design, a melding of Gothic Revival and Italianate styles taking form in an octagonal tower.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4
Survey number: HAER RI-27
Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work
References
This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 97001264.
This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Other versions
Object location
41° 10′ 19.99″ N, 71° 33′ 29.99″ W
View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap
41.172220; -71.558330
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
Block Island Southeast Light
copyright status
public domain
coordinates of the point of view
41°10'19.99"N, 71°33'29.99"W
location of creation
Rhode Island
coordinates of depicted place
41°10'19.99"N, 71°33'29.99"W
MIME type
image/png
checksum
f5688211315044e6e226a0f3cd4dba38f1348109
determination method: SHA-1
data size
7,045,997 byte
height
14,442 pixel
width
9,632 pixel
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.