NPS Photo by Kent Miller
News Launch Date: July 15, 2020
Get in touch with: Christie Anastasia, 207 288-8806
BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The Countrywide Park Service (NPS) is psyched to announce that the U.S. Common Products and services Administration (GSA) transferred the Bass Harbor Head Light-weight Station from the U.S. Coast Guard to Acadia Countrywide Park on July 8, 2020. Manufactured in 1858, the light-weight station was transferred at no expenditure to the NPS less than the authority of the Nationwide Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 (NHLPA). The Bass Harbor Head Light Station is now 1 of 3 light-weight stations in Acadia Nationwide Park joining the Baker Island and Bear Island lights.
“We are grateful to Friends of Acadia for supporting this transfer via their 2018 gain auction,” said Superintendent Kevin Schneider. “We ended up capable to use that support to full a Historic Constructions Report that will guideline our preservation of the building into the long run.”
“I am thrilled that the GSA New England Serious Assets Utilization and Disposal team was ready to facilitate this transfer amongst our Federal partners beneath the NHLPA,” reported Christopher Averill, Regional Administrator, GSA Location One. “Bass Harbor Head Gentle Station is an legendary component of the Acadia Nationwide Park landscape and will now be savored by generations of site visitors to arrive.”
“The transfer of Bass Harbor Head Mild is a different fantastic illustration of the Nationwide Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA) process working easily,” reported Captain Brian J. LeFebvre, USCG Commander, Sector Northern New England. “It is the finest way to present continued community accessibility to Bass Harbor Head Light-weight and ensure that the distinctive historic character of the light will be preserved.”
The NHLPA method is a partnership amid the U.S. Coast Guard, National Park Company, the U.S. Common Expert services Administration and new stewards.
The NHLPA acknowledges the cultural, leisure and educational worth connected with historic gentle stations by making it possible for these countrywide treasures to be transferred at minimal cost to federal agencies, point out and nearby governments, nonprofit firms, academic and community advancement organizations.
The acquisition features 5 historic buildings on two acres of land. The NPS will sustain the lighthouse in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Therapy of Historic Qualities and will produce designs to stabilize the construction, shield it from deterioration, and most likely give for customer accessibility in the upcoming. The U.S. Coastline Guard will carry on to function and sustain the automated assist to navigation.
The mild station was shown in the Nationwide Sign up of Historic Places in 1988.
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