 The house contains two identical apartments (presumably for the keeper and the assistant keeper, but ordinarily the assistant got a smaller, not identical apartment).A unique feature is a skylight in the stairs so the keeper or his assistant could observe the light working without going outside or climbing the tower.The light was completed in November 1896, but traffic on the Great Lakes is not a year-round event, so it wasn't until the spring of 1897 that it was first lit.