Bricks are on Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula
PASCAGOULA -- She's up. And the bricks are on her.
The final details of the masonry work wrap up this week on the Round Island Lighthouse at its new location near the foot of the high-rise bridge on U.S. 90.
J O Collins, the Biloxi contractor rebuilding the lighthouse, has a few things to complete, there will be a whitewashing and then the fundraising will begin to raise $200,000 for the interior -- stairs and lighting, according to Pascagoula officials.
"We're almost there," said Jen Dearman, the city's Community and Economic Development director. "In late August the contract will be done for the exterior."
J O Collins Carpenter Kenneth Jones, overseeing the work on Tuesday, said they still need to rebuild the entry steps to the door, install a wooden door (probably heart pine or cypress), install a double-hung window with counter weights and give the outside surface an acid wash to clean the bricks of excess mortar.
Dearman said there will need to be glass installed in the lantern, on top, and then there will be a "light whitewashing," which means it will be painted white, but not a thick white, as it was originally painted.
She said the brick work will show through.
Dearman said the idea is to have it look like it did in the 1960s and 1970s on the island.
Jones talked with pride about the brick work at the top of the structure, just under the lantern, called corble.
"The top is done," he said. "We finished that this morning."
And the lantern sits on a circular base of Brazilian soap stone, cut especially for the project.
"It has been a fight to get it where it's at," Jones said. Rebuilding "anything round and on a taper like that ... you've got to know what you're doing."
Scaffolding has been removed from the Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula, as seen Wednesday morning.
The final details of the masonry work wrap up this week on the Round Island Lighthouse at its new location near the foot of the high-rise bridge on U.S. 90.
J O Collins, the Biloxi contractor rebuilding the lighthouse, has a few things to complete, there will be a whitewashing and then the fundraising will begin to raise $200,000 for the interior -- stairs and lighting, according to Pascagoula officials.
"We're almost there," said Jen Dearman, the city's Community and Economic Development director. "In late August the contract will be done for the exterior."
J O Collins Carpenter Kenneth Jones, overseeing the work on Tuesday, said they still need to rebuild the entry steps to the door, install a wooden door (probably heart pine or cypress), install a double-hung window with counter weights and give the outside surface an acid wash to clean the bricks of excess mortar.
Dearman said there will need to be glass installed in the lantern, on top, and then there will be a "light whitewashing," which means it will be painted white, but not a thick white, as it was originally painted.
She said the brick work will show through.
Dearman said the idea is to have it look like it did in the 1960s and 1970s on the island.
Jones talked with pride about the brick work at the top of the structure, just under the lantern, called corble.
"The top is done," he said. "We finished that this morning."
And the lantern sits on a circular base of Brazilian soap stone, cut especially for the project.
"It has been a fight to get it where it's at," Jones said. Rebuilding "anything round and on a taper like that ... you've got to know what you're doing."
Scaffolding has been removed from the Round Island Lighthouse in Pascagoula, as seen Wednesday morning.
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