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Spectacle Reef Light is a lighthouse 11 miles (18 km) east of the Straits of Mackinac and is located at the northern end of Lake Huron, Michigan. [8] It was designed and built by Colonel Orlando Metcalfe Poe and Major Godfrey Weitzel , [ 9 ] and was the most expensive lighthouse ever built on the Great Lakes .
The Spectacle Reef Light was the most expensive lighthouse ever built on the Great Lakes. It is said to be the most spectacular engineering achievement in lighthouse construction on Lake Huron. Construction in the 1870s cost $406,000. 10: Forrest J. Stimpson House: Forrest J. Stimpson House: May 12, 1980 : 566 Trails End
Saginaw River Rear Range Light; St. Clair Flats Front and Rear Range Light; St. Helena Island Light; St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights; St. Martin Island Light; Sand Hills Light; Sand Point Light; Seul Choix Light; South Haven Light; South Manitou Island Lighthouse; Spectacle Reef Light; Stannard Rock Light; Sturgeon Point Light
DeTour Reef Light: Lake Huron: De Tour Village 74 ft (23 m) 1847/1931: 1974: Active ... Spectacle Reef Light: Lake Huron: Cheboygan County 86 ft (26 m) 1874: 1972 ...
Spectacle Reef Light rests on a "crib" foundation. A crib lighthouse is a type of lighthouse whose structure rests on a concrete or masonry foundation supported with wooden beams. The name "crib" refers to the wooden crib pier style of construction which was used as a foundation for lighthouses. When it came time to build, wooden cribs were ...
Successively, using underwater crib designs, the Board built on a shoal the Waugoshance Light (1851), and demonstrated a "new level of expertise" in constructing of the Spectacle Reef Light (1874), Stannard Rock Light (1882) and Detroit River (Bar Point Shoal) (also known as the Detroit River Entrance Light) (1885).
Its "westbound Lighthouse Tour" – three hours more or less – includes passes by various lights, including White Shoal Light, Waugoshance Light (which it replaced), Wilderness State Park, Gray's Reef Light (originally built in 1891), and St. Helena Island Light. A so-called grand lighthouse excursion is a yearly event sponsored through the ...
Built for $152,000, almost as much as Spectacle Reef Light, the most expensive lighthouse on the Great Lakes. The Toledo light was first illuminated on May 23, 1904, by a 3½-order Fresnel lens that featured a 180-degree bull's-eye, two smaller 60-degree bull's-eyes and a ruby-red half cylinder glass made in Paris by Barbier and Bernard.