Ogdensburg Harbor Light
![]() Lighthouse in 2013 | |
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Location | Lighthouse Point, St.Lawrence River, Ogdensburg, New York |
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Coordinates | 44°41′52″N 75°30′12″W / 44.69778°N 75.50333°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1834 |
Construction | Limestone |
Height | 65 feet (20 m) |
Shape | Square |
Markings | White & Grey w/ Red Lantern |
Heritage | National Register of Historic Places listed place ![]() |
Light | |
First lit | 1900 |
Deactivated | 1961-2011 |
Focal height | 21 m (69 ft) ![]() |
Lens | Fourth-order Fresnel lens (original), unknown (2011) |
Characteristic | Fl W 10s ![]() |
Ogdensburg Harbor Lighthouse | |
NRHP reference No. | 16000202[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 2016 |
Ogdensburg Harbor Light is a privately owned lighthouse on the St. Lawrence River, listed on the National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program as Lighthouse to visit.[2][3] and as one of New York's Historic Light Stations.[4] In 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]
History
[edit]An addition was made to the tower in 1900.
Cultural
[edit]The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcards of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online. These include postcards of Ogdensburg Harbor Light [6] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
- 1911 postcard in the Smithsonian's collection
See also
[edit]- List of lighthouses in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Lawrence County, New York
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ ARLHS World List of Lights
- ^ National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of Historic Light Stations
- ^ National Park Service's Maritime Heritage Program's Inventory of NY Historic Light Stations
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/30/16 through 5/06/15. National Park Service. 2011-05-06.
- ^ "Smithsonian lighthouse postcards". Archived from the original on 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
Further reading
[edit]Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), pp. 145–146
External links
[edit] Media related to Ogdensburg Harbor Lighthouse at Wikimedia Commons
- Lighthouse Friends site
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
- National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
- NPS Ogdensburg Light
- Rudy & Alice Archived 2009-04-06 at the Wayback Machine