My replica of the Point Judith Lighthouse
comes with your choice of:

• Cedar Wood Construction for either indoor or outdoor display
• Pine Wood Construction for indoor use only

The base price includes:

• Aluminum exterior light housing
• Reinforced Plastic Resin railings
• Windows that reflect light
• Standard 40 Watt Bulb, 120 Volt AC incandescent light fixture
• Hand crafted and hand painted detail
• Choice of interior or exterior wiring on Cedar replicas
• Interior wiring with In Line On/Off switch on Pine replicas

Options available for the Point Judith Lighthouse are:

• Nightlight 7 Watt Bulb, small base light fixture and lantern lens
• Flashing Beacon Kit and lantern lens
• In Line On/Off switch for interior wiring on Cedar replicas
• Outdoor Photo-electric cell for dusk to dawn operation
• Inside Photo-electric cell for automatic night light operation
• 3 to 21 foot Vinyl Coated Galvanized Steel security cable
• Historical Appearance

HEIGHT: 29 Inches
WIDTH: 12 Inches
SHAPE: Octagonal
WEIGHT: 12.5 Pounds

Marking a spit of land extending about a mile into the Block Island Sound and Squid Ledge just offshore, the first lighthouse built on Point Judith was built in 1809 to aid vessels traveling between New York and New England as well as those entering the Narragansett Bay.  This first light was an octagonal wooden tower which only lasted 6 years being destroyed by a hurricane in 1815.  In 1816 the replacement tower (also octagonal) was built 35 feet tall of rough stone. Over the ensuing years this second tower as well as the keeper’s house deteriorated to the point that replacement was more cost effective and the existing tower and a connected keeper’s house were built in 1857.  Equipped with a new 4th order Fresnel lens, the new tower, still octagonal, was built 51 feet tall from brown stone and incorporated an arch from the 1816 tower into the design. Visible in the arch are the engraved words:
“W. Ellery Found. / 1816 / C. Cook Insp.”
William Ellery was the Customs Inspector in Newport and therefore the Superintendent of area lighthouses at that time while Mr. Cook apparently was the inspector. The arch is over a first floor window but I suspect that it was originally over a door judging by the placement of the window and blocks below it.  The window is off center to the arch and the stones in the area to the right and below the window appear to have been installed after the surrounding brown stone blocks,  giving the appearance of a blocked over door opening centered under the arch.  The tower was painted all white until its familiar daymark was added in 1899. Point Judith also was the site of a Morse Code radio beacon from 1931 to 1974.  The keeper’s house was torn down in 1954 when the lighthouse was automated.  The adjacent Coast Guard Station was built in 1937 replacing the 1876 Lifesaving Station that burned down in 1933. 

 The Point Judith Lighthouse continues to be an active aid to navigation located on the grounds of Coast Guard Station Point Judith in the Town of Narragansett. The upper half of the tower continues to display a brown daymark band topped by a black lantern.  Originally colored with brown paint, the daymark has been given by the actual brownstone dyed a bit darker since the tower was renovated in 2000.  The Fresnel lens flashes an occulting white light characteristic of 5 seconds on, 2 off, 2 on, 2 off, 2 on and 2 off for a total of three flashes every 15 seconds. 

September 2000 Issue, Salute to the Coast Guard: Restoration of Point Judith Lighthouse by Jeremy D'Entremont. "Thanks to a recent $230,000 Coast Guard restoration, the tower is in its best condition in many years." Please go to the Lighthouse Digest Magazine Archives to read this article. Lighthouse Digest magazine not only keeps the history of our lighthouses alive both in print and on line, but it is the best single source to keep current on all aspects of lighthouse preservation, news and events.