Year first lit 1890 Foundation Granite blocks Tower shape Conical tower Opened 1890 Added to NRHP 30 March 1988 Architect Henry Hobson Richardson | Automated 1957 Construction Granite blocks Height 10 m Architectural style Romanesque architecture Year first constructed 1890 | |
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Location Off Ocean Ave. on Castle Hill at W end of Newport Neck, Newport, Rhode Island Address 800-870 Ocean Ave, Newport, RI 02840, USA Similar Rose Island Light, Beavertail Lighthouse, Claiborne Pell Newport, Newport Harbor Light, Point Judith Light | ||
Castle hill lighthouse rhode island
Castle Hill Lighthouse is located on Narragansett Bay in Newport, Rhode Island at the end of the historic Ocean Drive. It is an active navigation aid for vessels entering the East Passage between Conanicut Island and Aquidneck Island. The lighthouse was completed in 1890 on property formerly belonging to the naturalist, oceanographer, and zoologist Alexander Agassiz of Harvard University. Agassiz sold the land to the United States Government for the lighthouse for $1.00.
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History
Henry Hobson Richardson drew a sketch for a lighthouse at this location which may or may not have been the basis for the actual design. The structure does not include the residence which was featured in Richardson's sketch. The keeper's house was built, and still stands, near Castle Hill Cove, a few hundred feet away.
Although the lighthouse is not open to the public, the shoreline and cliff face where the lighthouse sits are accessible by several footpaths from the Castle Hill Inn and the Castle Hill Cove Marina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as Castle Hill Lighthouse.
List of keepers
- Frank W. Parmele (1890 – 1911)
- George L. Hoxsie (1911 – at least 1944)
- Manuel Soares Macedo (at least 1945).