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RONDOUT CREEK (KINGSTON) LIGHT
State: NEW YORK
Location: KINGSTON POINT / HUDSON RIVER
Nearest City: KINGSTON
County: ULSTER
U.S.C.G. District: 1
Year Station Established: 1838
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Existing Historic Tower:
- · Year Light First Lit: 1915
- · Is the Light Operational? YES
- · Date Deactivated: N/A
- · Automated: 1954
- · Foundation Materials: CONCRETE PIER W/WOOD PILES
- · Construction Materials: BRICK
- · Markings/Patterns: YELLOW BRICK W/BLACK LANTERN
- · Shape: SQUARE
- · Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- · Tower Height: 48
- · Original Optic: SIXTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- · Year Original Lens Installed: 1915
- · Present Optic: 250 MM
- · Year Present Lens Installed:
- · Height of Focal Plane: 52
- · Fresnel Lens Disposition:
- · Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s):
- · 1. Construction Date: 1837
- · Description: WOODEN STRUCTURE
- · Fate/Disposition: DEMOLISHED
- · 2. Construction Date: 1867
- · Description: COMBINATION STONE TOWER & KEEPERS QUARTERS
- · Fate/Disposition: TORN DOWN
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
- · Fog Signal Type: HORN (REMOVED ) / ORIG. BELL
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- · Year Constructed: 1915
- · Number of Stories: 2.5
- · Architectural Style: EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- · Construction Materials: BRICK
Other Structures: 2 CISTERNS IN BASEMENT
Current Use: ACTIVE AID TO NAVIGATION/MUSEUM
Owner/Manager: CITY OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK
Open to the Public? YES (Go to Lighthouses to Visit for access information)
Web Site: LINK
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #79001640
Name of Listing: KINGSTON/RONDOUT 2 LIGHTHOUSE (HUDSON RIVER LIGHTHOUSE TR)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed:
Miscellaneous:
EARLIER TOWER TORN DOWN IN 1950S;
OWNERSHIP TRANSFERRED FROM USCG UNDER NHLPA IN 2002 |
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