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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.
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
This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Michigan as identified by the United States Coast Guard.Michigan is home to lights on four of the Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair and connecting waterways.
Spectacle Reef Light: Michigan [24] 91 feet (28 m) Sand Hills Light: Michigan [25] 90 feet (27 m) St. George Reef Light: California [26] 90 feet (27 m) Harbour Town Light: South Carolina 89 feet (27 m) Pointe aux Barques Light: Michigan [27] 89 feet (27 m) New London Harbor Light: Connecticut 87 feet (27 m) Au Sable Light: Michigan [28] 86 feet ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light ca. 1950. The United States Lighthouse Service intended from the time of design that this light would be automated (possibly the first such instance) [7] and operated by radio control [8] from the nearby Poe Reef Light which is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away; the keeper's house was never intended to be used as a residence. [9]
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.