Existing
Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1849
- Is the Light Operational? NO
- Date Deactivated: 1923
- Automated:
- Foundation Materials: BRICK
- Construction Materials: IRON PANELS W/BRICK LINING
- Markings/Patterns: RED W/BLACK LANTERN
- Shape: CYLINDRICAL
- Relationship to Other Structures: SEPARATE
- Tower Height: 40
- Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1857
- Present Optic: REMOVED
- Year Present Lens Installed:
- Height of Focal Plane: 47
- Fresnel Lens Disposition:
Previous Tower(s):
- 1. Construction Date: 1823
- Description: LIGHT ON KEEPERS DWELLING 25 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL
- Fate/Disposition: DETERIORATED
- 2. Construction Date:
- Description:
- Fate/Disposition:
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1849
- Number of Stories: 2
- Architectural Style: CAPE COD
- Construction Materials: WOOD
Other Structures: BRICK OIL HOUSE (1894), GENERATOR BUILDING
Current Use: NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Owner/Manager: U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE - MONOMOY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUFE
Open to the Public? YES (Go to Lighthouses
to Visit for access information)
Web Site: LINK
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #79000324
Name of Listing: MONOMOY POINT LIGHTHOUSE (LIGHTHOUSES OF MASSACHUSETTS
TR)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed:
Miscellaneous:
IT WAS DECIDED IN 1923 THAT CHATHAM LIGHT WAS SUFFICIENT FOR AREA;
STATION RESTORED IN 1988; CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AT BREWSTER, MA, USES STATION AS
AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER
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