Research Paper On Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

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Our building is the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. This building is 198 feet tall. The lighthouse is white, and has 4 navy blue stripes. The base is red, and brown. The whole lighthouse is made of bricks.
We chose the Cape Hatteras lighthouse because we didn't want to make a normal building like everyone else, so we made a lighthouse. Anna has also been to the lighthouse too! The geometric components of the lighthouse would be, at the base of the lighthouse it is made out of an octagon for the bottom part of the base, and for the top of the base it is also an octagon. The column of the lighthouse is a cylinder. On the column there are windows and the windows are rectangles.
At the top of the lighthouse the balcony is a circular shape, and the lantern

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