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The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Penfield Reef Lighthouse in 1990. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] In 2015, the Coast Guard executed a substantial rehabilitation project at the lighthouse, designed by architect Marsha Levy of the Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Unit Providence, to address the damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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In 2009 Robbins Reef was put up for sale under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. [7] In 2011, the Noble Maritime Collection , a maritime museum on Staten Island, was granted stewardship of the light station by the U.S. General Services Administration . [ 8 ]
The light was bought by Dr. James Southard, Jr. for $119,000, [10] and was again up for sale in 2012, including a nearby waterfront lot, for $288,000. [14] In March 2023, the lighthouse was purchased by Richard Cucé of Quakertown, Pennsylvania for $125,000. Mr Cucé also owns Hooper Island Lighthouse near Dorchester County, Maryland. [15]
The ruined lighthouse at Waugoshance protects boats from a shoal area at the northern end of Lake Michigan. The lighthouse is located in Emmet County, Michigan, United States, and in U.S. Coast Guard District No. 9. [9] [10] It is approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of Mackinaw City. Due to erosion and deterioration, the lighthouse is ...
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Massachusetts as identified by the United States Coast Guard.Enumeration of the lighthouses in this state is complicated by the number of multiple tower stations and replacement of older towers, with the Brant Point Light station having had nine towers, two of which survive. [1]
Race Rock Light is a lighthouse on Race Rock Reef, a dangerous set of rocks on Long Island Sound southwest of Fishers Island, New York and the site of many shipwrecks. [2] [3] [4] It is currently owned and maintained by the New London Maritime Society as part of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act program.
1885 photo of lighthouse, when it was still upright. The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. [2] The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977.