| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History.
2020-2024 Targeted Resurvey of Sheboygan recommendation write-up:
Rising 50 feet, this cylindrical, metal-constructed lighthouse tower is painted red and is missing its lantern. Despite the missing lantern room, it continues to maintain a navigational light, albeit a replacement.
The Sheboygan Breakwater or North Pier Lighthouse was brought to Sheboygan in sections and was built in 1904, replacing the previous lighthouse structure. In 1915, the steel lighthouse was loaded onto a scow and towed out to its present location and erected at the outer end of the breakwater, which had just been extended and improved. According to a 1951 newspaper article, there were no first order lights in service on the Great Lakes at that time and this breakwater light had a flashing red light of the fifth order and visibility of nine miles. The service of the lighthouse was consolidated with the U.S. Coast Goard in 1939 and the Coast Guard continues to operate it today.
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| Bibliographic References: | LJM Architects, Inc. "City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Architectural and Historical Intensive Survey Report." City of Sheboygan Historic Preservation Commission & Department of City Development; 2002, 2004 & 2006.
Citations for the 2020-2024 recommendation write-up:
“Sheboygan Lights Are to be Removed,” The Sheboygan Press, 13 August 1915, 6; “Marine,” The Sheboygan Press, 14 August 1915, 4; “Practically Finish Work on New Pier,” The Sheboygan Press, 20 August 1915, 5; “Work on Breakwater Ends and Fine Harbor is Established Here,” The Sheboygan Press, 16 October 1915, 9; Ed Long, “Scow Used in Moving Lighthouse to Pier,” The Sheboygan Press, 2 February 1951, 11; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1994 Inventory of Historic Light Stations (Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1994), 352-53; Barry Ginter, “Still Beaming,” The Sheboygan Press, 9 April 1997, 1; "Final Report," 130; “Sheboygan Harbor Breakwater, Piers and Revetments,” Determination of Eligibility form, Case#10-1209/SB, Prepared in 2010, excludes the lighthouse, in site file for the lighthouse structure (AHI#129478). |
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