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Get Capable of Buy Fixer-Uppers With Waterfront Views: U.S. Lighthouses Up for Sale

Since Congress handed a regulation authorizing the federal authorities to modify possession of lighthouses in 2000, higher than 150 have been conveyed to new homeowners, along with 81 which had been handed over to state, native and nonprofit firms and about 70 which had been purchased at auctions.

Prices at auctions have ranged from $10,000 to $933,888, primarily based on the G.S.A.

Sheila Consaul, a communications advisor in Washington, D.C., bought the Fairport Harbor West Lighthouse in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, for about $71,000 at a G.S.A. public sale in 2011, and reworked it proper right into a summer time season residence.

Ms. Consauls red-and-white lighthouse, which was constructed on Lake Erie in 1925, stays to be a working navigational help, with a solar-powered beacon maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard and a local weather station maintained by the Nationwide Local weather Service, she talked about.

I imagine my favorite half is having saved such an icon, Ms. Consaul talked about. Its acquired all the points {that a} fantastic summer time season house on the water would have, nonetheless its so sentimental to so many people in these little cities the place theyre.

She warned potential bidders, nonetheless, to consider that many lighthouses lack main utilities and have been inbuilt distant areas that arent merely accessible to contractors. She talked about it had taken her 9 years to place in working water in her lighthouse.

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