Historic lighthouse on the auction block: Government sells off Stratford Shoal Light Station in Long Island Sound

Stratford Shoal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its 1989 nomination form describes a "carefully crafted" three-story granite house built in 1878 on less than an acre of land with a "cast iron spiral stair" and Gothic Revival touches.

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