Lighthouse of the Week, October 19-25, 2025: Newburyport Harbor Range Front, Massachusetts, USA

 

I'm featuring a pair of lighthouses this week and next, both in the same location. Why?  Because they're there.  

Where they are is Newburyport, Massachusetts.  The lighthouse I'm featuring next week has a designated location on the map, but this week's lighthouse doesn't.  So I'll show you where next week's lighthouse is and tell you where this week's lighthouse is.

Here's where next week's lighthouse is.  Now, to get to this week's lighthouse, go here, and you can see it using satellite high-resolution imagery. See that little tower on the right?  That is this week's lighthouse.

And here's what the Lighthouse Directory tells us is true about it.

"1873. Inactive since 1961. 15 ft (4.5 m) round cast iron tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern roof is red. The lantern is a restoration (1990). ... In 1901 the original lantern was removed and the tower was extended with an octagonal wood tower, later raised to a total tower height of 35 ft (11 m). The lighthouse was relocated in 1964 from Bayley's Wharf to the grounds of the Merrimack River Coast Guard Station. Sometime in the 1990s the wood tower was damaged by fire; the Coast Guard then removed the wooden extension and added the replica of the original lantern. In 1999 the Coast Guard agreed to lease the tower to the Lighthouse Preservation Society for full restoration and interpretation. Campbell Construction Group performed some renovation in late 2001. Located on the waterfront between Federal Street and Independent Street, about 350 ft (100 m) east of the rear light."

Given its diminutive size, it has several pages about it.

Newburyport Harbor Range Front, MA  (Lighthouse Friends)

Newburyport Harbor Range Lights, Massachusetts (The Lighthouse Guy; this includes pictures of next week's lighthouse)

Pictures below, and maybe a surprise.

Here's the surprise: a live webcam showing the little lighthouse.