Maine - Winter Harbor Lighthouse

This conical brick lighthouse was built in 1856 and stands on the southern end of the four-acre Mark Island, at the entrance to Winter Harbor, ME. During its seventy-seven years of operation, the tower's lantern showed a fixed white light from thirty-four feet above the sea. Operation of the light was discontinued in 1934 and the light station was closed.

Sometime later it was sold to a Bar Harbor resident. It later passed to other individuals who have maintained and used it as a seasonal home. One of these individuals was author Bernice Richmond, whose popular books Winter Harbor and Our Island Lighthouse relate many of the experiences she and her husband savored while living out the fantasy of actually owning a lighthouse.

The day I visited this lighthouse in 2001 the weather was overcast. I used a 500mm lens to get this picture because the lighthouse sets off the mainland on the island previously mentioned.