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Milwaukee Pierhead Light & Milwaukee Breakwater
Located inside the breakwater at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a pier at the entrance to the Milwaukee River.
Another “Lake Michigan red” conical tower, with a black walkway surrounding a black lantern room. The tower is built of eight circular steel rings that appear to telescope up. Each successive rings is slightly smaller than the one below it.
Re-Built in 1906 to replace an 1872 light, the 42-foot steel tower exhibits a Fifth Order Fresnel lens, made by Henri Le Paute of Paris, which bears the date 1877. The tower originally had a Fourth Order lens that is believed to be the lens presently in the Breakwater Light. The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to the one presently on the Breakwater Light.
Visitors may walk out on the pier. Park in the lot at the end of East Erie Street. The Milwaukee Breakwater Light is also visible from this location.
Located on the end of the breakwater, on Lake Michigan, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to mark the harbor entrance. The breakwater protects the entrance to the Milwaukee River.
Built in 1926, the steel frame white two-story building, with square tower on top, contains a Fourth Order Fresnel lens thought to have been taken from the pierhead light. The helical barred lantern is also thought to have come from the pierhead light.
The tower is 53-feet tall overall and the red light has a focal plane of 61-feet above Lake Michigan. The structure sits on a 60' x 54’ concrete pier that rises more than 20-feet above the water. The tower rises 14-feet above the second floor of the dwelling.
The best place to view this light is from the parking lot at the end of East Erie Street, adjacent to the Milwaukee Pierhead Light.
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