A bed and breakfast

This post is about another one of our "hometown" lighthouses, which has actually been converted into a bed and breakfast.

After we arrived home from our honeymoon, did our trash the dress photo shoot and returned to work, our lighthouse adventures continued.  On a Saturday in September, we headed out to the Braddock Point Lighthouse.  Braddock Point is located in the middle of a 100-mile stretch from Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse and Oswego West Pierhead Lighthouse.  This 100-mile stretch does not have any lighthouses that have enough height and power to render them a "coast light", even though there are some smaller lighthouses.  Therefore, Braddock Point was initially established in order to develop a lighthouse that could have the appropriate characteristics needed to guide vessels on the lake.

We viewed the lighthouse from the Bogus Point Park because, as I previously mentioned, the lighthouse is currently a bed and breakfast therefore the grounds are closed to non-guests.  The current lighthouse is 65-feet tall, however, when it was originally constructed it was 110-feet tall.  Over time the lighthouse experienced structural damage and the upper portion of the lighthouse needed to be removed, shrinking it to 30-feet tall.   

 Wow, my hair is not that short anymore...

Braddock Point experienced some vandalism during the years that it was deactivated.  In 1957 it began its stretch of being a private residence and in 1986 major restoration of the lighthouse began.  These renovations would continue for a total of eight years.  It was at this point that the 30-foot tall lighthouse would grow to 65-feet tall.  In 1996, the lighthouse was activated again and it is currently a working lighthouse.

 

 In 2008, the lighthouse was purchased and converted into a bed and breakfast.  We are contemplating staying there for our one year wedding anniversary this summer!  It would be an amazing way to get more pictures of the lighthouse and sleeping in the actual keeper's quarters wouldn't be too shabby either.  Included in the price of staying there is a guided tour of the lighthouse tower.  I'm sure if we do stay there that we will have a blog post about it!