National Register of Historic Places

Cedar Island Lighthouse

Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York
Listed
April 17, 2003
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
03000248

About this property

Cedar Island Light is a lighthouse in Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton, New York. It overlooks Gardiners Bay. The 40-foot (12 m) granite lighthouse was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. The lighthouse, built in the Italianate style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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 Cedar Island Light with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Media related to Cedar Point Lighthouse (Northwest Harbor, New York) at Wikimedia Commons Cedar Island Lighthouse - from Lighthousefriends.com National Park Service List of New York Lighthouses Archived 2007-04-10 at the Wayback Machine U. S. Lighthouse Society’s The Keeper’s Log – Winter, 2007 Plans of Lighthouses and Related Structures, ca. 1817–ca. 1996: Cedar Island Lighthouse, 1888-1972

Location

Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York
41.04069, -72.26042

Categories

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When was Cedar Island Lighthouse listed on the National Register?

Cedar Island Lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 2003.

What type of historic resource is Cedar Island Lighthouse?

Cedar Island Lighthouse is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Cedar Island Lighthouse?

The period of significance for Cedar Island Lighthouse is recorded as the industrial era.

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