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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
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: 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; Stavseng Lighthouse; Stawa Młyny; Svenner Lighthouse; Svenska Högarna; U. Ulla Lighthouse; W. Wuqiu Lighthouse This page was last edited ...
The five lighthouses are Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, [11] St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, [12] Marblehead Light (Ohio) on Lake Erie [13] and Thirty Mile Point Light on Lake Ontario. [14] Because of its picturesque form and location, it has been the subject of many photographs and postcards. [15]
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 ...
It was U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Major Orlando M. Poe who designed the plans for the new lighthouse, and proposed the total construction cost to be 21,000 dollars more than what was previously appropriated; the amount proposed was relatively modest, given the then astounding figures he would expend on building the Spectacle Reef Light.