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The federal government maintains thousands of properties around the country and sometimes needs to offload a few. This includes properties not on the mainland U.S., such as light houses from New England to the Caribbean, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.
The General Services Administration’s National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act Program works with states, local communities, nonprofits and individuals to convey these historic structures for the sake of preservation. Scroll through the gallery to see some lighthouses currently for sale, as well as the most recent property transfers through the program.
Minneapolis Shoal Lighthouse
Green Bay (near Big Bay de Noc), Michigan
This octagonal steel plated reinforced concrete lighthouse sits upon a square concrete base supported by a concrete crib. It occupies Great Lakes Public Trust bottomlands near Escanaba, which are owned by the state of Michigan, according to GSA. It was built in 1936 and named after a wooden steamship accident that occurred near its site decades before the light was ever built, according to Mlive.com. It was automated in 1980 and declared excess in 2015.