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| Architect | Orlando Metcalfe Poe |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003780 |
| Added to NRHP | 1984 |
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Wind Point Lighthouse (or Windpoint Light Station) is a lighthouse located at the north end of Racine Harbor in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is in the village of Wind Point, Wisconsin, on Lighthouse Road, next to the Shoop Park golf course. The lighthouse stands 108 feet (33 m) tall. One of the oldest and tallest active lighthouses on the Great Lakes,[2] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[3]
History
Racine harbor had its first lighthouse in 1837,[4] but that light was not visible to ships approaching from the north, blocked by Racine Point, three and a half miles to the north.[5] As a result, the Lighthouse Board recommended in 1870 the building of a lighthouse on Wind Point itself. Congress appropriated the money in 1877 and the lighthouse entered service in 1880.[6]
Wind Point Lighthouse was designed by Orlando Metcalfe Poe, a former Brigadier General in the Civil War. The lighthouse was constructed in 1880. It was lit for the first time on November 15, 1880. The beacon was originally powered by a three-wicked kerosene lamp, magnified by a third-order Fresnel lens. The light was electrified in 1924, and replaced a DCB-24R airport beacon in 1964. The DCB-24R failed in 2007, and was replaced by a VRB-25 lens.[5] A signal house (horns removed, resonators still in place) remains on the grounds as well as a garage, two storage buildings, and an oil house. The Village of Wind Point has maintained the lighthouse and grounds since 1964, and uses the old keepers' quarters as a village hall and police headquarters.[5] The park and lighthouse were transferred from the U.S. coast guard to the Village of Wind Point in 1997, with the requirement that it be maintained as a historical landmark. The lighthouse is open to tour on certain dates.
In the summer of 2007, the lighthouse tower underwent a US$210,000 restoration,[7] during which windows and doors were replaced, brickwork repointed, and the tower repainted.
The shipwreck site of the Kate Kelly is located 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the lighthouse.[8]
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See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About - Wind Point Lighthouse". Wind Point Lighthouse. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wind Point Light". Inventory of Historic Light Stations. National Park Service. Archived from the original on February 2, 2006. Retrieved November 25, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pepper, Terry. "Root River Lights". Seeing the Light. Terry Pepper. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wind Point Lighthouse". Lighthousefriends.com. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Charles K. Hyde (July 10, 1979). "Historic American Engineering Inventory: Wind Point (Racine Point) Light Station". United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wind Point Lighthouse". Wisconsin Shipwrecks.org.
Specialized further reading
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- Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
- Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) Template:ISBN.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes".
- Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN.
- Taylor, Paul (October 2009) Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer (Kent State University Press) Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN.
- Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) Template:ISBN.
External links
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- Wind Point Lighthouse - Official Website
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017.
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