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Managing Organization:
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
Telephone: 218-226-6372
Website: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/parks_and_recreation/state_parks/split_rock_lighthouse/
Email:
Contact Address Information:
3755 Split Rock Lighthouse Road
Two Harbors
Minnesota, 55616, United States
Notes:
This light station has been restored by the Minnesota Historical Society to the way it looked before 1924. Interpretive staff at the site portray the lives of 1920s keepers and their families for visitors to the station.
Tower Height: 54
Height of Focal Plane: 168
Description of Tower: Octagonal brick tower.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
Two-story brick keeper's house, brick fog signal building, oil house, three additional keepers' dwellings, two storage barns, pump house, tram house.
Date Established: 1910
Date Present Tower Built: 1910
Date Deactivated: 1969
Optics: 1910: Third order Fresnel lens, still on site.
Current Use: Museum.
Open To Public? Yes.
Museum?
The buildings, visitor center and grounds are open from May 15 through Oct. 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Visitor center and grounds are open Oct. 16 through May 14 from noon to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Closed Thanksgiving weekend, the month of December and Easter Sunday.
Directions:
This lighthouse is located about 20 miles northeast of Two Harbors on MN Highway 61.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Orren “Pete” Young (1910-1928); Franklin J. Covell (1928-1944).
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