From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2017.24.123159
This image is a view of Owl's Head habor and Holiday Beach looking north toward the lighthouse. There are numerous friendship sloops and other small rowboats and dories anchored. A house can be seen at the end of Dodge Point. Owls Head Lighthouse was built in 1825 and stands 26 feet tall. Its guiding light shines out over Penobscot Bay from a vantage point 100 feet above sea level, which offers visitors a commanding view of the surrounding seascapes and islands. The tower was rebuilt in 1852. It is a 30-foot-tall (9.1 m) cylindrical brick tower on a granite foundation standing on top a cliff. It has one of the last six Fresnel lenses in operation in Maine. In 1854, a keeper's house was built separate from the lighthouse. The cottage now serves as the headquarters of the American Lighthouse Foundation. A fourth order Fresnel lens was installed in 1856. A generator house and an oil storage building were added in 1895. Renovations carried out in 2010 saw the tower restored to its 1852 appearance. In addition to repainting the tower, repairs were done to the bricks, the lantern’s ironwork and windowpanes, and the parapet’s floor. It was automated in 1989
