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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]
An addition was made to the tower in 1900.
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.
Berger, Todd R., Lighthouses of the Great Lakes, (Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2002), pp. 145–146
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