{"nrhp_refnum":"03000607","name":"Bodie Island Light Station","other_names":["Bodie Island Lighthouse","Body's Island Lighthouse","Bodie Island Visitor Center and Lighthouse"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off NC 12","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nags Head","county":"Dare County","state":"NC","lat":35.81857186800005,"lon":-75.56333963699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Engineering","Maritime History","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bodie Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse district on Bodie Island near Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina, centered on a first-order brick lighthouse tower with an attached oil house/workroom, first lit on October 1, 1872.","why_significant":"The supplied text is mostly documents about relocating the separate Bodie Island Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station complex, plus part of the lighthouse's Section 7 description. It does not include the lighthouse's statement of significance, so the reasons for its listing are not stated here beyond its design and its role as an active aid to navigation.","narrative":"Bodie Island Light Station, in Dare County on North Carolina's Outer Banks, centers on a tall brick lighthouse completed in 1872. The tower follows a standardized U.S. Lighthouse Board design for stand-alone conical first-order towers. Inside, a 214-step cast-iron spiral staircase rises through eight landings to the lantern, and the floor at the base is marble tile laid in a diamond checkerboard pattern. The first-order lens was made by Barbier and Fenestre of Paris in 1871 and still serves, with a modern electric lamp, as an active aid to navigation maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard. A white brick oil house and workroom is attached to the tower by a short passageway and has a Stick Style gabled stoop. The tower passed to the National Park Service in 2000, though the Coast Guard kept ownership of the lens. The excerpt provided does not include the formal statement of significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Stick Style is mentioned for the oil house stoop overhang; no overall style classification is stated.","criteria":[],"status_note":"The light is maintained and operated by the U.S. Coast Guard as an active aid to navigation; the tower was transferred to the National Park Service in 2000.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.418762-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7198/47719895/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000607.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000607/c73f8f5230-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000607/c73f8f5230-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jarek Tuszyński","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodie_Island_Lighthouse_2008.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jarek Tuszyński</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodie_Island_Lighthouse_2008.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719895","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99371803"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/dare-county/bodie-island-light-station-03000607/"}