Long Beach Bar Lighthouse (Orient Long Beach Bat Light)
Year Built
1899
Cost
$30,000
Type
Conical "spark plug"
Height
52 feet
Location
Off Orient point, north eastern tip of Long Island
Automated Year
1954
First Lit
1899
Lens Type
Fifth order Fresnel lens 1899 (original), Optic (current)
Fog Signal
Horn: 2 blasts every 30s
Year Deactivated
Active
Color
Black tower with white band in center
Last Keeper - Date
John R. Kettering ( – 1958)
Description
The lighthouse is not open to the public.
Brief History
• Construction began in October 1898, but it turned out to be the stormiest autumn in decades.
• Orient Point Lighthouse exhibited its fixed red light for the first time on November 10, 1899.
• Keeper Ole Nicholas Alfred Anderson served at Orient Point until September 1901, when he was transferred to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Later, Anderson would serve twenty-five years at the twin lights at Navesink, New Jersey.
• On April 5, 1958, the Coast Guard Cutter Hawthorne arrived at Orient Point Lighthouse and carried away the station’s furniture and personnel.
• The Fresnel lens was replaced by a modern optic in 1988, and in 2000 the Coast Guard returned for major work on the lighthouse.
