Cape Neddick Light Station - The Nubble Light, York Maine

Date added: March 05, 2024 Categories:

Boat house, keeper's house, covered way to shed, light tower and oil house (1989)

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Cape Neddick Light Station, located on a high promontory reaching out into the Atlantic between Portsmouth and Portland is an important navigational mark guiding sailors away from the jagged rocks at its base. One of the few stations that has never been rebuilt, it has become a mecca for artists and tourists because of its picturesque location and accessibility from the mainland.

The lighthouse and island were featured in the movie Lost Boundaries (1949).

The lighthouse wasn't automated until 1987.

Cape Neddick Light Station, locally known as "The Nubble", is situated on a high piece of land, largely bare rock, off York Beach and is connected by a bar with the mainland at a very low drain of tide.

There are five buildings on the island: the keeper's house, a single gable, story-and-a-half wood frame structure of six rooms which is connected with the light tower by a covered way; the red brick oil house; the wood frame single-story workshop; and the boat house with ways leading to the water. The 39-foot light tower is of iron lined with brick and has 32 iron steps leading to the round watch room. Seven more iron steps reach the lantern which has eight panes of glass, four ruby-colored facing the land and the remainder white exposed to the ocean. The tower is equipped with a fourth-order light.