STURGEON POINT
LIGHT
Location: STURGEON POINT/LAKE HURON
Nearest City: HARRISVILLE
County: ALCONA
U.S.C.G. District: 9
Year Station Established: 1869
Existing Historic Tower:
- Year Light First Lit: 1869
- Is the Light Operational? YES
- Date Deactivated:
- Automated: 1939
- Foundation Materials: LIMESTONE
- Construction Materials: BRICK
- Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/RED TRIM
- Shape: CONICAL
- Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
- Tower Height: 71
- Original Optic: SIXTH ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Original Lens Installed: 1869
- Present Optic: THIRD AND HALF ORDER, FRESNEL
- Year Present Lens Installed: 1889
- Height of Focal Plane: 69
- Fresnel Lens Disposition: THIRD AND HALF ORDER
LENS (ORIGINALLY FROM OSWEGO, NY) STILL INSTALLED
- Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s): N/A
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? NO
Existing Keepers Quarters? YES
- Year Constructed: 1869
- Number of Stories: 2
- Architectural Style: CAPE COD
- Construction Materials: LIMESTONE/BRICK
Other Structures: BRICK PRIVY (1869)
Current Use: MUSEUM
Owner/Manager: MICHIGAN DNR LEASE TO ALCONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
W/USCG ACCESS TO OPTIC Open to the Public? YES (Goto
Publicly Accessible Lighthouses for access information)
Web Site:
National Register Status: LISTED Reference #84001370
Name of Listing: STURGEON POINT LIGHT STATION (U.S. COAST GUARD/GREAT
LAKES TR) On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1969
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