Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light

Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light, also known as the South Buffalo Southside Light or Buffalo South Breakwater, South Entrance Light Station, is a lighthouse at Stony Point at the entrance to Buffalo Harbor, Buffalo, New York. It was established in 1903 and deactivated in 1993. It was replaced by a nearby modern post light. The lighthouse property consists of a three-story cast iron 43.5-foot (13.3 m) decommissioned light tower topped with a lantern; one-story concrete fog signal building and an L-shaped concrete pier.[2]

Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light
Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light, 2005
LocationStony Pt. end of Buffalo Harbor S breakwater, Buffalo, New York
Coordinates42°50′0″N 78°52′3″W
Year first constructed1903
Year first lit1903
Automated1935
Deactivated1993 
FoundationTimber crib / concrete pier
ConstructionIron
Tower shapeConical
Tower height43.5 feet (13.3 m)
ARLHS numberUSA-091 ?
Heritageplace listed on the National Register of Historic Places 
Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light
ArchitectUS Lighthouse Service
MPSU.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes MPS
NRHP reference No.07001191[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 16, 2007

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-07-01. Note: This includes Daniel Koski-Karrell (April 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Buffalo Harbor South Entrance Light" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-01. and Accompanying nine photographs

Further reading
  • Oleszewski, Wes. Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
  • Scott T. Price. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  • U.S. Coast Guard. Historically Famous Lighthouses (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1957).
  • Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia. Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3


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