All Great Lakes Auctions Closed
By Sue Clark on Dec 5, 2008 in Updates 
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So the bidder known as dimlight now owns two Ohio lighthouses. The final amount for the Conneaut Lighthouse was $35,000. Not a bad price in today’s economy. And as far as I could tell, this was probably the best of the three Great Lakes lighthouses that have been up for auction since early September.
Conneaut Lighthouse will be up for auction again in Spring of 2010. The purchaser, Gary Zaremba, did not get the required bottomlands lease from the state of Ohio. Watch this site for more information for when the auction draws near.
And the buyers of the Duluth Harbor lighthouse have revealed themselves to their local newspapers. Steven Sola and Matt Kampf, both of Duluth, acquired the steel tower near the Aerial Lift Bridge on Monday. According to the article at the Duluth News Tribune (free registration required), Sola said:
“You don’t get the chance to buy something very often that all you can really do is take care of it for the next guy,” Sola said Wednesday. “You’re really just borrowing it. That’s cool. We weren’t going to pass it up.”
Beyond preserving the tower, however, they’re really not sure what they’re going to do with it. But first they have to reach a lease agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers, complete a photographic survey of the structure and have separate electric meters installed.
A little tidbit in the story noted that Sola is the discoverer of a piece of Great Lakes history when he was one of a group of divers who, in 2007, discovered the 1888 wreck of the Amethyst, a wooden ship that was scuttled about 150 feet from Park Point in Duluth.
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