This week's lighthouse was an accidental find. I was perusing this online feature from the House Beautiful Web site, entitled "The Most Beautiful Small Town in Every State". I wanted to see what town they picked in Maryland -- it happened to be Berlin, which is near Ocean City. I've driven through its outskirts but never went downtown. While clicking through, I hit the chosen town from Connecticut, Noank, which was illustrated with a lighthouse. I wanted to see more, but StreetView hasn't been down the city streets, which therefore must be both quaint and narrow. I don't know for sure -- even searching for Noank on Google images doesn't yield either a lot of quaintness or a lot of streets.
However, what frequently pops up in the Noank searches is the lighthouse. This might make one think that it's a tourist attraction. That would be a mistake. Even though it's undoubtedly a tourist highlight, particularly for sailors, the Morgan Point lighthouse is a former lighthouse, because now it's a private home.
There are several Web pages/sites about it.
Morgan Point lighthouse at New England Lighthouses
Morgan Point lighthouse at Lighthouse Friends
From the Lighthouse Directory, we get that it was built in 1868 after the light station was established in 1831. Height-wise, it's a "52 ft (16 m) octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery, mounted on a 2-1/2 story granite keeper's house."
Now, I said it's a private house, which might make it hard to find out what it looks like on the inside. But actually, I found an article that provides a tour, and has plenty of exterior pictures, too.
Living in a Lighthouse
Since this has a lot of pictures, I chose a couple of pictures that are slightly different.
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| Shelf model version |
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| Painting, available at Fine Art America |
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| With the schooner Argia sailing in behind it. |
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