Lighttower
In French: Phare de Nottawasaga
Also known as Nottawasaga Lighthouse
About Lighttower
Lighttower is one of 2 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings in Collingwood. The register gives 1857–1859 for Lighttower. John Brown and Canadian Board of Works designed it.
Situated on the north corner of an island in the Georgian Bay, the Lighttower at Nottawasaga Island is an 85-foot (26 metre) tapered, massive stone tower that ends in a slightly projecting cobelled gallery on which rests a twelve-sided cast iron lantern which is capped by a domed copper roof with a ball-pinnacle ventilator at its peak. The windows openings are placed regularly around the tower and the rough wall surface of the structure is white. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Lighttower · Open Government Licence – Canada · in the register’s words, not edited
Classified is the higher of the two ranks the federal government gives the heritage buildings it owns.
Finding Lighttower
Collingwood
To reach another historic place from here you will need more than a short walk.
Questions about Lighttower
Is Lighttower protected?
As a Classified federal building, any work on it needs the federal heritage review’s advice while Canada owns it.
When was Lighttower built?
Work on Lighttower is recorded as 1857–1859.
What is Lighttower?
Lighttower: a federal building of the highest heritage rank, Classified in 1999.
Can you visit Lighttower?
The outside is easy to see; inside, it depends on the owner’s rules.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
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