Wood End Light Lookout Station is a historic lighthouse, located at the southwest end of Long Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[2][4][5] It is located at Wood End, near the southernmost extent of the Provincetown Spit, and acts as a navigational aid to vessels on their approach to Provincetown Harbor. The Long Point Light Station, further down the peninsula at the tip of Long Point is an identical design and completed in 1875, three years after Wood End Light.

Wood End Light

US Coast Guard photo, not dated.
Location	Provincetown, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°1′16.4″N 70°11′36.6″W
Tower
Constructed	1864 (lookout station) 1872 (lighthouse built)
Foundation	Concrete
Construction	Brick
Automated	1961[1]
Height	39 feet (12 m)
Shape	Square, pyramidal
Markings	White with black lantern (originally painted brown)[1]
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Fog signal	Horn:one 3-second blast every 30 seconds[note 1] Previous (1902): 1,000 lb (450 kg) fog bell
Light
First lit	1872[1]
Focal height	45 feet (14 m) above mean sea level
Lens	Fifth-order Fresnel lens[1] (original), VRB-25 (current)
Range	13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)
Characteristic	Fl Red 10s (Red flash every 10 seconds)
Wood End Light Lookout Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	Lighthouses of Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	87001504[3]
Added to NRHP	June 15, 1987

The light was first illuminated on November 20, 1872, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 1981, Wood End Light became the first Massachusetts lighthouse to be converted to use solar energy to power the light and fog signal equipment.[1][6]

In 1896 a wooden keeper's house was built, as well as a storage shed and oil house. With the changing times and no need to man the light station, it was decided in 1961 to raze the buildings leaving just the tower and oil house.

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External links

• Media related to Wood End Light at Wikimedia Commons