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1. Date of erection: 1896 according to the records of the Lighthouse Board, then under the Department of the Treasury.
2. Architect: Individual is unknown. The Lighthouse Board staff was undoubtedly responsible for the lighthouse's design.
1. Architectural character: The building was described in the 1897 Report of the Lighthouse Board as being built in the "cottage style." In fact, the building does possess a variety of materials and some pleasing ornamentation. (A sunburst pattern of wood slats decorates the gable end). 2. Condition of the fabric: The Cedar Point Lighthouse is a structurally damaged building which stands on an island usually submerged under a foot of water. It is essentially a shell exposed to storms and the normal action of the wind and waves. One corner pier has failed; windows and doors are gone. The historic chimney stack is gone, but the roof appears intact.
U. S. Coast Guard: Light Lists Atlantic and Gulf Costs of the United States, Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1952
U. S. Lighthouse Board: Annual Reports 1852-1910, Washington, D. C., U.S. Government Printing Office.
DeGast, Robert: Lighthouses_of_the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press: 1973
Excerpt from 1976 Navy Department General Development Map of Naval Air Station. Patuxent River, Maryland.
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A. Physical History
Original and subsequent owners: The Cedar Point Lighthouse has been owned by an agency of the U. S. Government for most of its existence. In 1914 the Treasury and Commerce Department granted a permit to the Arundel Corporation to dredge the property for sand and gravel. Not surprisingly, this business arrangement coincided with the progressive erosion of Cedar Point. Early twentieth century maps show first a substantial pond at the center of the point, then the erosion of the Patuxent shoreline which makes the pond an inlet, and finally the erosion of the Bay shoreline making the lighthouse site an island and creating a new Cedar Point to the west.
A, General Statement
B. Narrative Description of Exterior, Interior, and Site.
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C. Supplemental Material:
Part IV: Project Information (as of July 30, 1985)
* [http://somd.com/photos/Cedar_Point_Lighthouse/ Photos that accompany the report]
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