Since there is a lot of information about this famous lighthouse, I'll excerpt from the Lighthouse
Directory first:
1936 (light tower added to the 1907 fog signal building; station established 1872).
Active: focal plane 52 ft (16 m); flash every 10 s, alternating red and white.
45 ft (13.5 m) square cylindrical steel-clad wood tower with lantern and gallery (1936)
mounted on a 2-story steel-clad brick fog signal building (1907); 250 mm lens (1932).
Entire building painted red. The 6th order Fresnel lens (1907) is on display at the
Holland Museum. The second (1907) lighthouse was relocated in 1937 as the Calumet Harbor
Breakwater South End Light in Indiana. The building was painted a buff color for the
first four decades of its life; it acquired its trademark red in 1956.
In 2005, the lighthouse was offered for transfer under NHLPA; the Holland
Harbor Lighthouse Historical Commission was the only applicant. In February 2007
title to the lighthouse was transferred to the Commission. By 2012 the lighthouse
had faded to Big Pink; it was repainted for free by Lamar Construction using
donated paint and supplies. Located on the south pier at the harbor entrance in
Macatawa, west of Holland.
Big Red Lighthouse Web page from Holland, Michigan's Web site.
Holland, Michigan locator map (Google Maps)
Lots of pictures!
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| From Fine Art America by Michelle Calkins |
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| It's cold there in the winter |
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| Collectible 1 |
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| Collectible 2 |
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| The Fresnel lens that used to be Big Red's light |
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