Monomoy Point Light is a historic light in Chatham, Massachusetts.

The station was established in 1823. The first light was a wood tower and brick lantern room on top of the keeper's house. The current tower, one of the first made of cast iron, was built in 1849.

Monomoy Point Light

After the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914, most vessels bound from south of the Cape to the Boston area took the shorter and safer route through the canal, so there was much less traffic past the light and the light was deactivated in 1923.

Monomoy Point Light

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Monomoy Point Lighthouse on November 1, 1979, reference number 79000324.

Monomoy Point Light

The keeper's house is preserved and serves today as a guest house. The Lighthouse Preservation Society, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and The Friends of Monomoy support preservation of the lighthouse and keeper's house. It lies within the Monomoy Wilderness.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

References

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Lighthouses completed in 1849

Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

Lighthouses in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Chatham, Massachusetts

Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts

National Register of Historic Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts

1823 establishments in Massachusetts

Lighthouses completed in 1823