City of Kewaunee, 401 Fifth Street, Kewaunee, WI 54216 920-388-5000   info@cityofkewaunee.org was installed. Concrete pads on the floor in the room's southeast and southwest comers support vertical 10-inch  steel beams extending from floor to ceiling. Two additional concrete pads supporting steel beams flank the doorway  to the second story's middle room. The eastern room's east wall is pierced with a rectangular window opening  covered with plywood. The room's north and south walls below the gables are each pierced with a tripartite  window, identical to those in the second story's western cross gable. Floor vents are centered under each set of  windows. A steel ship's ladder with pipe handrails leads up from the floor to a rectangular trapdoor opening in the  ceiling below the light tower. This provides access to the room inside the tower, directly above.  The lighthouse's third story is a rectangular room inside the light tower. It measures 9 feet, 8 inches wide by 10  feet, 2 inches long. The walls, ceiling and floor are covered with plywood. A pipe handrail surrounds the floor's  trapdoor opening. The room's north, south and west walls are each pierced with a single rectangular window  approximately 2 feet wide by 2 feet tall. These windows have side hinges and wood frames. These are covered on  the exterior with lexan. Two similar wood frame windows, one covered with plywood, are located in the east wall. A  wooden step ladder leads up to a trapdoor opening in the ceiling. It provides access to the lantern room, directly  above.  The room inside the octagonal lantern is 7 feet in diameter. The floor is wood and covered with a rubber mat. The  lantern's parapet wall is made with eight cast iron panels painted white. Each second panel is pierced with a  circular vent opening. A two-leaf metal door pierces one parapet panel. It is 2.5 feet tall and provides access to the  lantern gallery, outside. The eight rectangular windows above the parapet are glazed with lexan.   A fifth order Fresnel lens lighted with an electric lamp is mounted on a metal pedestal which is affixed to the center of the lantern room floor.  The USCG currently operates this optic as an aid to navigation, and will continue to do so after the transfer of the property. Web Design software by Xara