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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
A historic CT lighthouse is available. That's at no cost to eligible entities
A historic lighthouse in Connecticut is available to certain entities, according to the U.S. General Services Administration The GSA issued a notice of availability for the Stratford Point Lighthouse late last month. The federal government says the historic lighthouse is available at no cost to 'eligible entities as a part of a federal disposal program authorized by the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000,' according to a U.S. General Services Administration statement. The eligible entities to take over the lighthouse include: federal agencies, state and local agencies, nonprofit organizations, educational agencies or community development organizations, according to GSA. The lighthouse is a 35-foot-tall cast iron structure that faces southeast toward Long Island Sound; it was originally constructed in 1822, and the current lighthouse was constructed in 1881. This was the first ever prefabricated cast-iron lighthouse in the state. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 says that a historic lighthouse that is no longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard is made available for park, recreational, educational, cultural, or historic preservation purposes. The lighthouse is located at 1275 Prospect Stt and is licensed to the town of Stratford, according to the GSA. The lighthouse and three buildings are on a 0.58-acre parcel and are four miles from Interstate 95 and one mile from Bridgeport-Sikorsky airport. It's located on the southernmost part of Stratford and faces the Long Island Sound and the exit of the Housatonic River, according to GSA. The lighthouse is an active aid to navigation by the U.S. Coast Guard. The USCG will reserve access to the property for maintaining the active aid to navigation. It can be accessed by land. The town of Stratford is holding public tours of the for the lighthouse this spring, but all sessions are sold out. However, there are plans for more tours in the fall. Also in Fairfield County, the Penfield Reef Lighthouse, in Fairfield appears as if it it could be soon on the market again after it was put on the market most recently in 2011, 2016, 2021 and 2023. That lighthouse, constructed in 1874, is located on the south side of the Black Rock Harbor in Bridgeport entrance on Long Island Sound. It's located just over a mile from Fairfield Beach. It's accessible by boat only, also according to the GSA. A GSA representative could not be reached Sunday. The lighthouse was heavily damaged by storm Sandy in 2012. The damage required $1.2 million in repairs to fix major leaks, install a new roof and added stainless steel doors and replaced existing windows with hurricane resistant ones, The Courant has reported. Like the Stratford lighthouse, the Penfield Reef Lighthouse is recognized as on the National Register of Historic Places. It has a tricky consideration: the successful bidder has to negotiate a lease with the state of Connecticut for 'bottomlands' under the lighthouse.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Were any RI federal buildings on the proposed closure list? What we know.
Federally-owned buildings across Rhode Island, including the IRS's service center in downtown, have been spared from an initial list of 443 buildings that may be closed and sold. The closest buildings initially listed were on the South Coast: Fall River's Social Security Administration building at 400 N. Main St. New Bedford's U.S. Custom House, the historic Greek Revival building at 37 N. Second St. In a statement, the General Services Administration wrote that the buildings have become "functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce." Since that initial list was posted, it has been taken down. The listing of 443 properties was saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. See the original list of "non-core" properties set to be disposed of here. While some IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers are on the 443-property list to be shuttered, "The Federal Center," a hulking four-story brick building in Downtown Providence, is not on the list. That federal building houses one of Rhode Island's two IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers. The building was framed as key to bringing people to the Westminster Pedestrian Mall before it was dismantled. The Providence Taxpayer Assistance Center is downtown at 380 Westminster St., in "The Federal Center," a hulking four-story brick building. Normally it is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Warwick's Taxpayer Assistance Center is at 40 Quaker Lane. It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and is closed between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and on weekends. Among the most noteable buildings on that initial list closure were: Headquarters of the Department of Justice Headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Old Post Office, formerly the Trump International Hotel The administration is often tasked with getting rid of surplus or excess government property and land. In Rhode Island, and New England, that often means offloading lighthouses under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. Some recent lighthouses that have been offloaded, or are in the process, are: Beavertail Lighthouse Prudence Island lighthouse Watch Hill Lighthouse Warwick Neck Lighthouse Read about all the 21 lighthouses in Rhode Island, many privately owned, in this primer by Katie Landeck. Thanks to our subscribers, who help make this coverage possible. If you are not a subscriber, please consider supporting quality local journalism with a Providence Journal subscription. . Follow Wheeler Cowperthwaite on X, @WheelerReporter, or reach him by email at wcowperthwaite@ This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: RI's federally-owned buildings safe from closure for now
