Keeper's House Layout

Keeper's House Layout. . , The First Floor , The parlors were located on the first floor, where the families spent their leisure time, including entertaining guests, reading, and playing games. We would call these rooms our living rooms or family rooms today., The Second Floor , The bedrooms were upstairs. Each family had two bedrooms, one for the keeper and his wife and the other for any children living with them. The second assistant keeper had a small room that straddled the two sides., The Basement , Basements are uncommon in Florida, especially as close to the ocean as the keepers' house is. Usually, when you're four feet into Florida soil, you're in a swimming pool. The basement is possible because as a former beach dune, the elevation of the Light Station is higher above sea level than much of the Florida coast. Keepers used the basement for storage and collected rainwater in the cisterns., Restoration work in 2014 has been financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.