Esopus Meadows Light

Esopus Meadows Light
2000

Location	West side of Hudson River, Esopus, New York
Coordinates	41°52′6.2″N 73°56′29.8″W / 41.868389°N 73.941611°W / 41.868389; -73.941611Coordinates: 41°52′6.2″N 73°56′29.8″W / 41.868389°N 73.941611°W / 41.868389; -73.941611
Year first constructed	1839
Year first lit	1872 (current tower)
Automated	1965
Deactivated	2003
Foundation	Granite pier on piles
Construction	Wood
Tower shape	Octagonal on square house
Markings / pattern	White house with red mansard roof
Focal height	52 feet (16 m)
Original lens	5th order Fresnel lens, 1872
Range	6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi)
Characteristic	Flashing White, 2.5s
Fog signal	Bell (Removed)
Admiralty number	J1140.08
ARLHS number	USA-276
USCG number	1-38155^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Esopus Meadows Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	less than one acre
Built	1871
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Hudson River Lighthouses TR
NRHP Reference #	79001638 ^[4]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1979

Esopus Meadows Lighthouse, nicknamed "Maid of the Meadows" and often simply referred to as the Esopus Light or Middle Hudson River Light^[2] is a lighthouse on the Hudson River near Esopus, New York. The lighthouse stands on the west side of the channel, in the river, its granite foundation built atop piles that have been driven into the riverbed, and is accessible only by boat.

Construction of the first lighthouse on the site began in 1838 when the land was ceded for $1.00 by the town of Esopus to the US government and the US government appropriated $6,000 to build the light. The light became active in 1839. It was a twin to the Roundout II lighthouse further north up the Hudson River. By 1867, however, the building was heavily damaged by flood and ice and funds for a new lighthouse were appropriated in 1870.

The current lighthouse was completed in 1871 and is the last wooden lighthouse in existence on the Hudson and the only Hudson lighthouse with a clapboard exterior. It was lit in 1872. One of a group of lighthouses in the Northeast built to an award-winning design by a Vermont architect, Albert Dow, Esopus Meadows Light has sister lights at Rose Island Light, Sabin Point, Pomham Rocks, and Colchester Reef. Esopus Meadows Light was closed in 1965 and by the 1990s it had fallen into a state of disrepair. The most serious problem was the deterioration of the foundation, which had begun to fall apart due to ice damage.^[5]

The Save Esopus Lighthouse Commission leased the lighthouse from the United States Coast Guard in 1990 for the purposes of restoration. They eventually took ownership in September 2002, as part of the pilot program for the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.^[6] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as Esopus Meadows Lighthouse.

Esopus Meadows Light is shown on the NOAA Chart 12347.^[7]

Reference list

↑ Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 317.
1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Downstate New York". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Elise Marie Barry (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Esopus Meadows Light". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-03-20. See also: "Accompanying photo".
↑ Horrigan, Jeremiah (June 13, 2002). "Hudson lighthouses given as gifts". Kingston, NY: Times Herald-Record.
↑ NOAA Chart 12347

2007

External links

Save Esopus Lighthouse Commission home page

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