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at a 20-acre (8.1 ha) site at Robinson Point purchased from Charles E. Robinson. The lighthouse tower was built slightly offshore, standing 40 feet (12 m) tall and consisting of a white granite and brick cylindrical upper section on a conical granite block foundation. The keeper's quarters
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The lighthouse was automated in 1934 and the government sold the property except the tower back to Robinson. The Robinson family used the property as a summer home until they sold it to Jeff and Judi Burke in 1986. The Burkes converted the keeper's quarters into a
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The lighthouse remains in service as of 2008. The current optic for the light is a 9.8 inches (250 mm) solar-powered lens which flashes red every four seconds with a white sector covering the safe channel. The original fourth order
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as "Isle au Haut Light Station" in 1988. The Coast Guard transferred the lighthouse to the Town of Isle au Haut in 1998 under the Maine Lights Program and the tower was completely restored in 1999.
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house connected to the tower by a catwalk. A boathouse, oil house, and storage shed were also built at the station.
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The lighthouse tower and surrounding buildings at Isle au Haut Light Station were built in 1907 by the
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called "The Keeper's House," which they operated until 2007.
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Isle au Haut, Maine
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44°3′53.076″N 68°39′4.952″W / 44.06474333°N 68.65137556°W / 44.06474333; -68.65137556
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Fresnel lens
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Isle au Haut, Maine
MPS
87002265
lighthouse
Isle au Haut
Maine
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Victorian
bed and breakfast
National Register of Historic Places
Fresnel lens
Rockland, Maine
National Register of Historic Places listings in Knox County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey

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