Type:
Year Established:
1828
Existing:
No
Source:
LL-1854
Download:
26-LG-11-69.jpeg (11.72 MB)
File Type:
jpeg (image/jpeg)
Photo Date:
1903
Photo Credit:
RG 26-LG-11-69
Photo Courtesy of:
US Lighthouse Establishment
Collection / Donor:
LOCATION
Location:
West Side Of Narrows/staten Island
Latitude:
40° 36.07'
Longitude:
74° 3.17'
U.S. State:
New York
Country:
United States
OWNER & ACCESS
Open to Public:
No
STRUCTURE
Year Discontinued:
1903
Disposition:
in 1892 Light Determined to Far Back From Point Intended to Mark; Replaced by Light at Fort Wadsworth in 1903
Year Tower Established:
1828, 1873
Tower Construction Material:
WOOD/IRON
Height of light above mean high water, in feet:
89
Height, in feet, from base of structure to center of lantern:
46
Tower Shape:
SQUARE ON ROOF OF DWELLING
Fog Signal Building?:
No
Keeper's Quarters?:
No
Year Keeper's Quarters:
1873
Keeper's Quarters Construction:
WOOD
OPTICS
Original Optic Type:
FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
Year Original Lens Installed:
1855
Private Aid:
No
USCG Access to Optics:
No
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Jan 15, 2018
Photo above from the National Archive website with this caption "Fort Tompkins Light Station, New York. Moved & rebuilt without the lantern, 1 story higher in 1903, for K.D. of Fort Wadsworth Light and Fog Signal Station."
Note the Keeper at the entrance stairs is on crutches.