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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramDeactivated light station on stilts located near the entrance to the Northwest Channel leading into Key West, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 2
Subject Term
Houses--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Stilts
Architecture, Domestic--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Dwellings--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Marine service--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Aids to navigation--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Lighthouses--Florida--Monroe County--Key West
Physical Description
General Note
Building was originally a lighthouse. After being deactivated the locals referred to it as the "House on Stilts". It was later burned down in 1971 by some local individuals and the only thing that remains to this day is the supporting frame work.
Accompanying note: "En route to Ft. Jefferson & the Marquesas".
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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