{"nrhp_refnum":"84002383","name":"Buffalo Main LIght","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Buffalo River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buffalo","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.88040119600004,"lon":-78.89568157599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Buffalo Main Light is a lighthouse at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in the city of Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at the entrance to Buffalo harbor on Lake Erie. It was listed as part of a multiple-property group of Coast Guard lighthouses and light stations on the Great Lakes.","why_significant":"The supplied document contains only review and return sheets, a Coast Guard property survey and a map excerpt. It has no description or statement of significance, so the reasons for listing are not given.","narrative":"Buffalo Main Light is a lighthouse located on the grounds of the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, beside the entrance to Buffalo harbor on Lake Erie. It was nominated as one of a group of Coast Guard lighthouses and light stations on the Great Lakes, covering sites in several states, and was entered in the National Register on July 19, 1984. The surviving papers include review sheets that asked for a USGS map, a Coast Guard explanation that photocopied map excerpts were supplied because original maps were unavailable, and a property survey of the station. The survey shows a Coast Guard reservation of about 29.5 acres, made up of parcels transferred from the War Department in 1935. The mapped light sits at UTM reference 17/672360/4749210. The nomination narrative, with the building's date, design and the reasons for its significance, is missing from this file, so those details cannot be summarized here.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.179857-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/8910/28891094/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/84002383.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002383/aa2c82d119-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002383/aa2c82d119-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Darmon","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuffaloMainLight.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Darmon</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuffaloMainLight.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891094","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Main_Light","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4985783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/buffalo-main-light-84002383/"}