North Point Light Station

North Point Light Station long guided mariners to Milwaukee from a site chosen to mark the north point of Milwaukee Bay. Erected in 1887 and first lit in 1888, its 39-foot octagonal cast-iron tower replaced an 1855 cream-city brick lighthouse built too close to the eroding bluff, and the Queen Anne-style keeper’s dwelling was built at the same time. In 1912 the tower was almost doubled to its present height of 74 feet by lifting the existing tower atop a new structure, creating a light source 154 feet above Lake Michigan that was visible up to 20 miles away. The United States Coast Guard took the light out of service in 1994, the two-acre property was transferred to Milwaukee County in 2003, and North Point Lighthouse Friends and Milwaukee County completed restoration of the light station in 2007.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin · United States