The following is a list of the work that is scheduled to be performed on the lighthouse and surrounding structures beginning 
July 1, 2002.

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Point Lookout Light Station

Rehabilitation Plan

Point Lookout, St. Mary’s County, Maryland

 

BACKGROUND

The Point Lookout Light Station is located on the southern tip of the peninsula known as Point Lookout in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, which sits adjacent to the Point Lookout State Park. Located on the north side of the Potomac River at its confluence with the middle section of the Chesapeake Bay, this peninsula is the northern point of land that defines the mouth of the Potomac river where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The site, owned by the United States Navy and under the custody of Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS), is approximately five acres and is surrounded by a six-foot high, barbed wire topped chain link fence. Entrance to the site is gained through the Point Lookout State Park. The district encompasses four buildings and one archaeological site related to Point Lookout and the maritime and military history surrounding the site. These resources include the Point Lookout Lighthouse (Building 1438), a buoy shed (Building 1436) and a coal shed (Building 1435) within the fence line, and a small smokehouse just outside the fence line, as well as an archaeological site that includes remains of the Civil War era U.S. General Hospital, Point Lookout, popularly known as Hammond Hospital.

In the fall of 2000, the Navy hired the Historic Preservation Training center (HPTC) to stabilize the lighthouse through a treatment commonly referred to as mothballing and layaway. The HPTC returned in October 2001 to provide a comprehensive condition assessment for the entire site. At that time, they created a Historic Structure Assessment Report and Preservation Treatment Plan for the Point Lookout Depot and Light Station. From that report, NAS staff in consultation with the HPTC, drafted the following specific preservation plan for the Point Lookout Light Station.

  1. Point Lookout Lighthouse (Tasks are in priority order)
    1. Exterior

B. Interior – The interior of the lighthouse will be an adaptive reuse treatment and will be submitted under a separate plan.


II. Buoy Shed (tasks are in priority order)

    1. Exterior

            B. Interior

III. Coal Shed

            A. Exterior

            B. Interior


IV. Smokehouse

            A. Exterior

            B. Interior

 

V. General Site Work

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