#Bois blanc island windows#
The cornice consists of stepped corbelling, and three windows are installed at varying heights of the building. The diameter at its base is 18 feet (5.5 m), and it reaches a height of 40 feet (12 m).
The limestone tower was built consistent with imperial tower designs of its era as a tapered circular tower with a rubble-stone core and rubble-stone finish. The construction contract was awarded to John Cook of Detroit. Although it is not known who designed the lighthouse, a local legend holds that it was Amherstburg engineer Andrew Kemp, a member of the civil branch of the Royal Engineers. The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada appointed a group of commissioners, to whom a design with specifications were submitted. Its purpose was to improve naval safety in Lake Erie, on which greater navigation was occurring because of the 1829 completion of the Welland Canal. It was built by the government of Upper Canada in 1836, in the style of an imperial tower common from the 1830s to the 1860s. The lighthouse is a white stone tower, located at the south end of Bois Blanc Island near the mouth of the Detroit River where it opens into Lake Erie. It consists of a lighthouse, owned by Parks Canada, and a blockhouse, which is privately owned. The Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Ontario on Bois Blanc Island, one of the islands in the Detroit River.
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