Newport Harbor Light

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| image_name = Newport Harbor Lighthouse, aka Goat Island Light crop.jpg

| location = N. end of Goat Island, Newport Harbor, Newport, Rhode Island

| coordinates = {{coord|41|29|35.92|N|71|19|37.34|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| yearbuilt = 1823

| yearlit = 1842 (current tower)

| automated = 1963

| foundation = Granite breakwater

| construction = Granite blocks

| shape = Octagonal conical

| focalheight = {{convert|33|ft}}

| height = {{convert|35|ft}}

| lens = Fourth order Fresnel lens (original), {{convert|250|mm|abbr=on}} (current)

| range = {{convert|11|nmi}}

| characteristic = Fixed Green

| fogsignal = none

| module = {{Infobox NRHP

| embed = yes

| name = Newport Harbor Lighthouse

| built = 1865

| added = March 30, 1988

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000750|title=Lighthouses of Rhode Island TR}}

| refnum = 88000276{{NRISref|2009a}}

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The Newport Harbor Light, also known as the Goat Island Light or Green Light, built in 1842, is located on north end of Goat Island, which is part of the city of Newport, Rhode Island, United States, in Narragansett Bay.{{cite uscgll|1|2009|162}}{{cite uscghist|RI}}{{cite rowlett|ri|date=2009-12-08}} The light was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

History

The first light on Goat Island was constructed in 1823–1824, but was transported in 1851 to Prudence Island, where the structure still remains as the Prudence Island Light.

The current light was constructed in 1842 a few yards off the coast of Goat Island, and was connected to Goat Island by a narrow dike (the area was filled in the 1960s for the hotel) because the previous light failed in adequately warning ships of a reef just a few yards off Goat Island. The original lighting apparatus, however, was transferred to the newer lighthouse in 1842.

In 1864, an attached lighthouse keeper's house was built. In 1921, a submarine hit the breakwater, damaging the foundation of the keeper's house. An electric light was placed in the tower the following year. The damaged keeper's dwelling was later torn down.

After a private developer purchased Goat Island in the 1960s, the land between the northern end of Goat Island and the light was filled in to build a hotel. In 2000, the Coast Guard leased the light to the American Lighthouse Foundation; it is managed by the Friends of Newport Harbor Lighthouse.

Gallery

File:Goat Island lighthouse.jpg|Postcard c. 1905 of the Newport Harbor Light with the 1864 keeper's house still attached

File:Newport Harbor Light in Newport, Rhode Island (2008).jpg|The lighthouse with the Newport Bridge in the background

File:Goat Island Lighthouse in front of Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (15377925362).jpg|The light in 2014

File:Prudence Island Light 2007 crop.jpg|Prudence Island Light, circa 1824, was the original Newport Harbor Lighthouse until it was transported to Prudence Island in 1851.