Rondout Light

Rondout Creek Leading Light


Location	Hudson River at Rondout Creek, Kingston, New York
Coordinates	41°55′15″N 73°57′45″W / 41.92083°N 73.96250°W / 41.92083; -73.96250Coordinates: 41°55′15″N 73°57′45″W / 41.92083°N 73.96250°W / 41.92083; -73.96250
Year first constructed	1838
Year first lit	1915 (current tower)
Automated	1954
Foundation	Concrete pier with wood piles
Construction	Brick
Tower shape	Square tower with attached house
Markings / pattern	Yellow brick with black lantern
Height	48 feet (15 m)
Focal height	54 feet (16 m)
Original lens	Sixth order Fresnel lens
Current lens	9.8 inches (250 mm)
Range	9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)
Characteristic	Flashing White, 6 secs
Fog signal	Horn (removed)
Admiralty number	J1139
ARLHS number	USA-702
USCG number	1-38190 ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Kingston/Rondout 2 Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915
MPS	Hudson River Lighthouses TR
NRHP Reference #	79001640 ^[4]
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1979

Rondout Light is a lighthouse on the west side of the Hudson River at Kingston, New York.

Nomenclature

The official name in the Coast Guard Light List is Rondout Creek Leading Light.^[1]
The National Register name, Kingston/Rondout 2 Lighthouse comes from its location in a series of day beacons and lights in Rondout Creek. Number 2 is the first on the right hand side.^[1]
The USCG history site calls it Rondout Creek (Kingston) Light.^[2]

History

The first lighthouse at the entrance to the Rondout Creek was a wooden one built in 1837. It was replaced by a second lighthouse, made of sturdier bluestone, in 1867. The bluestone lighthouse was abandoned after 1915 and torn down in the 1950s. Only its circular stone foundation remains today.^[5]

The current lighthouse was built in 1915, replacing the earlier 1867 lighthouse. In 1954 the light was automated and the building closed.^[5] The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act provides for the Coast Guard to declare some lighthouses surplus, and for their ownership to be transferred to historical, non-profit or local government entities following an application process and review. Nine lighthouses were identified in the fall of 2001 as part of a pilot program to transfer such lighthouses. Rondout Light was one of those nine.^[6] Rondout Light was transferred from the Coast Guard to the City of Kingston in 2002.^[7] It is currently managed by the non-profit Hudson River Maritime Museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[4]^[8]

References

1 2 3 Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2009. p. 318.
1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: New York". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
↑ Rowlett, Russ (2009-12-24). "Lighthouses of the United States: Downstate New York". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "Rondout Lighthouse", Hudson River Maritime Museum
↑ NHLPA 2001 Transfer Pilot Program
↑ Hudson Lights
↑ Elise Marie Barry (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kingston/Rondout 2 Lighthouse". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-03-20. See also: "Accompanying two photos".

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