{"id":4464,"date":"2012-07-04T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T17:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T17:58:09","slug":"marblehead-lighthouse-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4464","title":{"rendered":"Marblehead Lighthouse (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first lighthouse<\/a> to be constructed at the northern end of Marblehead Neck<\/a> (called Lighthouse Point) was built in 1835. There was a 23-foot white tower and a brick keeper’s cottage, attached to the tower by a covered walkway. The original cottage was replaced by a wood-frame keeper’s house in 1878. In the 1870s, large summer houses were being built on Marblehead Neck, obscuring the lighthouse from being seen at sea. To deal with this situation, a light was hoisted to the top of a tall mast near the lighthouse in 1883. The original lighthouse was demolished and a taller tower<\/a> was finally constructed<\/a>, which was first illuminated on April 17, 1896. Instead of a brick tower, a 105-foot cast-iron skeleton tower<\/a> was erected, the only lighthouse<\/a> of its type in New England. The iron tower<\/a> was most likely selected because it cost only $8,786, instead of the the $45,000 required for a brick tower. Chandler Hovey<\/a>, a well-known yachtsman, purchased the land around the lighthouse<\/a> and in 1948 donated it to the town for use as a park<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first lighthouse to be constructed at the northern end of Marblehead Neck (called Lighthouse Point) was built in 1835. There was a 23-foot white tower and a brick keeper’s cottage, attached to the tower by a covered walkway. The original cottage was replaced by a wood-frame keeper’s house in 1878. In the 1870s, large summer houses were being built on Marblehead Neck, obscuring the lighthouse from being seen at sea. To deal with this situation, a light was hoisted to the top of a tall mast near the lighthouse in 1883. The original lighthouse was demolished and a taller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,148,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighthouses","category-marblehead","category-vernacular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}