Conical tower attached to entrance tower; East tower conical without lantern
Markings
White with black trim, East Tower White.
Heritage
National Register of Historic Places listed place
Fog signal
HORN: 2 every 60s
Light
First lit
1874 (current tower)
Deactivated
West tower was deactivated in 1924
Focal height
129 feet (39 m)
Lens
2nd order Fresnel lens (original), VRB-25 (current)
Range
15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic
Fl W(4) 15s
Two Lights
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Built
1874
Architectural style
Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.
74000167[1]
Added to NRHP
December 27, 1974
Cape Elizabeth Light (also known as Two Lights) is a lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, at the southwestern entrance to Casco Bay in Maine.[2][3][4]
Only the eastern tower of the two that made up the light station until 1924 is active. Until recently, the eastern light used a second-order Fresnel lens. The western tower is deactivated, but remains standing. Public Access to the light station is prohibited by both the US Government and multiple private landowners.
the US Government
The facility is adjacent to Two Lights State Park, a 41-acre (17 ha) state facility. However, the park no longer has view of the lighthouses, and some folks opt to tour the area by boat to avoid trespassing. The park was the Cape Elizabeth Military Reservation, part of the Harbor Defenses of Portland, in World War II. During that war the former western lighthouse was a fire control tower.[5]
Cape Elizabeth Light, designed in the Gothic Revival style, was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Two Lights on December 27, 1974.[1]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 1.
^"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Maine". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. 2009-08-08. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
^Rowlett, Russ (2009-10-03). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southern Maine". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
^"Cape Elizabeth Military Reservation". FortWiki. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
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