Shinnecock Light stood on the south side of Long Island in New York and took its name from the Shinnecock Indian Nation, tying it to the local Indigenous community and landscape. Built in 1858, the original lighthouse was an unusually tall red brick tower, rising 168 feet and carrying a 1st order Fresnel lens nearly 12 feet high to cast a powerful coastal light. It was discontinued in 1931, replaced by a skeleton tower, and demolished by the Coast Guard in 1948. A later communication tower carried the light at 75 feet. Shinnecock Light remains notable for the exceptional scale of its lost tower and lens.