Assistant Keeper’s

• “Re-home” items currently stored in east apartment kitchen, bath & pantry to facilitate planned projects
• Continue lead remediation in downstairs east apartment (parlor ceiling, kitchen, pantry, bath, closets)
• Build removable winter covers for basement stairway window and west apartment south kitchen window
• Clean, glaze, paint & caulk windows in east apartment basement stairway, north kitchen window & bath
• Strip interior doors in east first story apartment
• Investigate using threaded inserts with truss screws to secure seasonal security covers on exterior doors
• Replace missing interior door hardware and repair/rebuild damaged ones
• Tighten door frames & hinges to allow doors to close properly
• Remove large rusted nails used to secure front exterior doors
• Replace broken window in west apartment front entry door
• Scrape, paint & caulk front doors
• Inventory original screens; investigate repurposing as “storms” with Lexan or vinyl
• Assess condition of screens for front entry doors for potential future restoration
• Restore second story east apartment windows
• Clear moss from roof and treat with moss-preventor
• Investigate tuckpointing chimneys, a source of prior roof leaks and a prerequisite for eventual re-roofing

1867 Lighthouse

• Annual cleaning/window washing
• Complete the removal of kitchen & bath floor file (first begun in 2017)
• Repaint upstairs bedroom
• Repair plaster — keepers bedroom, bath and office are priority areas (to be contracted)
• Lantern room: replicate bronze vent covers (parts have been cast, need finishing)
• Lantern room: Install replacement sheet metal, vent bases and covers
• Lantern room: Acquire/fabricate rooftop vent ball and install
• Steam/scrape burlap linoleum underlayment on kitchen floor allow hardwood floor restoration
• Address roof leak associated with bathroom vent pipe (needs plan)

Workshop / Summer Kitchen

• Paint floor
• Repair ceiling
• Annual deep clean/organization

Skeletal Tower

• Restore entry and parapet door latch mechanisms
• Remove deck plate with prisms to be used as sample to recreate missing items

Oil House

• Clean, paint (if necessary) and organize interior

Fog Signal

• Address roof leaks around stacks (needs plan)
• Glaze 1st floor windows (to be done on time-available basis after LH & AK windows projects)
• Replace/glaze broken pane (ditto)
• Paint 1st floor exterior window frames (ditto)
• Clean cupola room and develop plan to restoration (stretch goal)
• Clean supply room and evaluate need to paint

Boathouse

• Remove damaged siding on west side, retaining salvageable wood for reuse
• Replace siding (boards & battens) on west side
• Perform foundation repairs
• Repair damaged wood on double doors

Grounds

• Remove aging trees endangering various structures (needs DNR approval/plan)
• Remove dead ash trees (need chain saw trained volunteer)
• Build “lean to” on maintenance shed to provide additional summer storage
• Picnic table repair
• Maintain trails and landscape

Other projects TBD. If you have specialized skills or interests, please let us know.