The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-05-11
Dutch-lsland lighthouse

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l. fee of the Collector Of the Customs in
Newport, until the twentieth day of May next,
at noon, for building Lighthouse and dwell
ling house on utch-lsland, Narragansett
Bay, OF the following materials, dimensions,
and description
The lighthouse and dwelling house to be
in one: hight house, fifteen feet long and fif.
teen broad; dwelling house, forty-iive feet
long andftteen broad cellar, six feet dee. three
! in the rock and three above the ruck three feet
thick: the whole OF the JOINT building situated
on a rock. which il willAcoyer, leaving only a
passage-way TO tIae outside door, 10 face east.
! erly. Walls 20 be OF undressed stone first
| story, two feet thick, and the same thickness
Of lighthouse walls up to the arch for support
Of stone-hoor Of lantern: second story walls of
! dwelling house, one and half foot thick.
| Height Of first and second stery, each, house
and lighthouse, eight eot; but the height of
tho house walls, front and back, only, twelve
| feet, the roof making half the height of the
second story; sixteen feet being the height Of
both stories at which height an octagonal
story Of lighthouse to commence, TO be four
/ teen feet high; whereon TO be placed lantern
| six feet high, the top whereof to be dome
four feet high, with ventilator above. From
| first story oflight-hoase stairs to descend into
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whence tho entrance into second story of
dwelling-house. The top of tho octagon to
be arched, reserving an entrance on the side
to the lantern; and TO have stone cornicc,
whereon To be laid soap stone or granite
stone deck, joints fitted with lead, with scut-
I tie, two BY two feet, the door Of which to be
| framed with iron and covered with copper.
To pass through tho scuttle an ron-laddor,
supported by good and sufficient stone estairs
rising from the stone-stairs which ascend from
the bottom of the cellar Good lime mortar
TO be used ia the construction Of the building
and the outside to be pointed with Roman &C.
nlent and white.washcd twice There are TO
be sovcn windows, whose frames to be six
feet by five; eight windows, frames four feet
by five; four cellar windows, frames two feet
by five, and two windows, six feet by two; be-
sides those of the lantern; the glass of which
10 DC Of the first quality. The wood used in
the building also to DC of the best kind. a
strong door with good lock, bolts, hinges,
and hooks, to enter the house; and the inner
doors, six i'll number, fitted with latches and
hinges, TO have their upper halves glazed: all
of them, as all the window-shutters, and the
other wood work, TO be painted faithfully and
finished, like every other part OF the buildings
IN wood, stone, iron, or glass, III a strong
and workmanlike manner. At each end
of the house, chimneys, with fre-places in
each story; four i'll the whole, and in one
OF them an iron crane with hooks. The
house 10 be divided into two rooms fif-
teen feet by yeieycn within the walls, first and
second story; with an entry way above and be.
low stairs often feet by eleven; all TO be lath.
cd, plasterc.e, double -hoored the upper laid
in mortar, and well nailed. The roof Of the
house to be rectangular, the boards whcrcofto
h.. a. Il II Ill. A
cedar shingles, the under side whereof, lathcd
and plastered, will be the ceiling Of the cham
bers; with spouts TO lead off the rain the
roof, however, to be accommodated to the
entrance from the second story, and to the four
windows which rise above the walls of the
house. On one side OF the chimney Of the
south room, lower story, an oven to be built,
with an iron door oil tho other a stone sink,
with gutter leading through the wall of the
house. Two closets with doors, shelves, and
locks To be placed where directed. On the
top OF the before mentioned octagon there is to
be an iron lantern of an octagonal form the
posts, two inches square, to run five feet into
the stone work, and secured with anchors;
the diameter, eight feet and tire height SIX
feet, with dome Of four feet in height, and
covered with copper (thirty-two ounces to the
square foot) formed by sixteen iron rafters,
concentrating IN an iron hoop at the top, which
forms the funnel for tae smoke to pass out OF
tho lantern into the ventilator in the shape of
a ball sufficient to contain thirty gallons, and
large enough TO secure the funnel against rain;
the ventilaior 10 be turned by vane, so that
the hole for venting the smoke may be ever to
leeward. The space between the posts OF the
lantern at the angles TO be occupied by sashes,
of iron, and so strong as not 10 work with the
wind each sash ofeighteen lights, to be glaz-
ed with double glass, twelve by twelve inches,
the lower tier only fitted with copper wherein
to be air ports excepting on one side, where
so much of the space as would otherwise be
filled with sases is TO be occupied by an iron
framed door covered with copper, twenty
inches wide, and six feet high Around the
lantern to be carried an iron railing, the posts
Of which 20 be one aud three eighths OF an inch
square connected as braces with the lantern
three ra-s oi an inch square, the upper one
| four feet troLa the deck TO be inserted in the
! braces The lantern and railing 10 be painted
twice over with white lead the dome, black
a complete electrical conductor Of copper to
I be affixed to the lighthouse, extending into
! the sea As the rock whereon the building is
| TO stand goe, OF shelving into the sea towards
( the west, the stones Of the wall below the bot
tom Of the western halfo the lighthouse eel.
lar will be strongly fastened with iron bolts !;
both stones aud bolts large. Proper stone
steps to be placed at the out door and stone
way of about one hundred feet in length and
ton in breadth, to average about three feet in
height, to be construc ted, leading northerly
: from the rock whercon the house is to be c.
} rcrtcd towards a well; which well is to be sunk
so deep, probably twenty feet through rock, as
/ 10 secure, at all seasons, plentiful supply Of
/ good water at a convenient distance from the
! house. stoned, and furnished with curb,
windlass, aud chain, AM good iron hoped
/ bucket An clubhouse, FIVE feet by four, board
/ ed aud skingled. Ono hundred rods Of double
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