- New Dorp Light
-
New Dorp Lighthouse 
New Dorp Lighthouse Location Staten Island / Lower New York Bay Coordinates 40°34′51″N 74°07′12″W / 40.58083°N 74.12°W Year first constructed 1856 Year first lit 1856 Deactivated 1964 Foundation Brick Construction Wood Tower shape Square on center of dwelling Markings / pattern White Height 80 ft (24 m) Focal height 190 ft (58 m) Original lens Second Order Fresnel lens ARLHS number USA-537 [1] USCG number New Dorp Light
Location: Altamont Ave., Staten Island, New York, New York Coordinates: 40°34′33″N 74°8′30″W / 40.57583°N 74.14167°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1854 Governing body: General Services Administration NRHP Reference#: 73001260[2] Added to NRHP: August 28, 1973 The New Dorp Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse located in the New Dorp section of, Staten Island, New York. Funds for the lighthouse were approved by Congress August 31, 1852 and the structure was completed in 1856. The lighhouse, built to serve as a rear range light to mark Swash Channel, a shipping channel in Lower New York Bay was built by Richard Carlow, who also built the similar Chapel Hill and Point Comfort Range Lights in New Jersey around the same time. Ships sailing through Swash Channel, were instructed to bring the New Dorp range light “in one” and steer towards the lights until the Chapel Hill Light came into view which would then mark the channel past West Bank.
The original beacon was a second-order range lens showing a fixed red light that shined 192 ft. above sea level. In 1891, the light was changed to fixed white. In 1907 the light source was changed from oil to incandescent oil vapor, which magnified the intensity of the light. In 1939, a sixth-order range lens was installed, showing a fixed white light. John B. Fountain was the first lightkeeper, who resided in the lightkeepers house upon which the lighthouse tower was built.
The New Dorp Lighthouse was decommissioned and boarded up in 1964. The lighthouse and land were neglected and vandalized for ten years until being sold at auction to a Staten Island resident named John Vokral for $32,000 auction in 1974. Vokral did extensive restoration work on the lighthouse, which now serves as a private residence.[3][4]
New Dorp Light is on the National Register of Historic Places, with Reference #73001260 as New Dorp Light. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1967. It is not open to the public.
References
- ^ ARLHS World List of Lights
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Northeast Lights: Lighthouses and Lightships, Rhode Island to Cape May, New Jersey, Robert Bachand, 1989.
- ^ American Lighthouses, 2nd: A Definitive Guide By Bruce Roberts, Ray Jones Publisher: Globe Pequot; 2nd edition (September 1, 2002) Language: English ISBN- 076272269X
External links
- Lighthouse Friends site
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHNY.asp.
- National Park Service Historic Lighthouses
- NPS New Dorp
Lighthouses of New York Ambrose Tower Light · Aunt Phebe Rock Light · Barber's Point Light · Barcelona (Portland Harbor) Light · Blackwell Island Light · Bluff Point Light · Braddock Point Light · Buffalo Light · Buffalo Harbor North and South entrance Lights · Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light · Buffalo North breakwater East end Light · Buffalo North Breakwater South End Light · Cape Vincent Light · Carleton Island Light · Cedar Island Light · Cold Spring Harbor Light · Coney Island Light · Coxsackie Light · Crossover Island Light · Crown Point Light · Cumberland Head Light · Dunkirk Light · East Charity Shoal Light · Eatons Neck · Elm Tree Beacon Light · Esopus Meadows Light · Execution Rocks Light · Fair Haven Light · Fire Island Light · Fort Niagara Light · Fort Lafayette Light · Fort Tompkins Light · Fort Wadsworth Light · Galloo Island Light · Gardiners Point Island · Horse Island Light · Horton Point Light · Hudson-Athens Light · Huntington Harbor (Lloyd Harbor) Light · Kings Point Light · Latimer Reef Light · Little Gull Island Light · Little Red Lighthouse (Jeffrey's Hook) · Montauk Point Light · Moriches Light · New Dorp Light · North Brother Island Light · North Dumpling Light · Oak Orchard Light · Old Field Point Light · Old Orchard Shoal Light · Ogdensburg Harbor Light · Orient Long Beach Bar Light · Orient Point Light · Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light · Plattsburgh Beacon Light · Plum Island Light · Point Aux Roches Light · Princes Bay Light · Race Rock Light · Rock Island Light · Romer Shoal Light · Rondout Light · Sands Point Light · Saugerties Light · Selkirk Light · Shinnecock Light · Sodus Outer Light · Sodus Point Light · South Brother Island Channel Range Light · South Buffalo North Side Light · Split Rock Point Light · Staten Island Light · Statue of Liberty · Stepping Stones Light · Stony Point (Henderson) Light · Stony Point Light · Strawberry Island Upper Cut Range Light · Stuyvesant Light · Sunken Meadows Light · Sunken Rock Light · Tarrytown (Sleepy Hollow) Light · Thirty Mile Point Light · (Three) Sisters Island Light · Throgs Neck Light · Tibbetts Point Light · Turkey Point (NY) Light · Watervliet Light · West Point Light · West Bank Light · Whitehall Narrows Light · Whitestone Point Light
Categories:- Buildings and structures completed in 1856
- Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- Buildings and structures in Staten Island
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
