{"nrhp_refnum":"73001273","name":"Eatons Neck Light","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Eatons Neck Point at Huntington Bay and Long Island Sound off NY 25A","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.95421763150006,"lon":-73.39618488707734,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone lighthouse tower at the northern tip of Eatons Neck on Long Island Sound, in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built in 1798 to a design by John McComb, Jr. It sits on Coast Guard property.","why_significant":"The light has served navigation continuously since 1798. It is one of three lighthouses known to have been designed by architect John McComb, Jr., and one of two eighteenth-century lighthouses still standing in New York State.","narrative":"Eatons Neck Light is a stone lighthouse tower on the northern tip of Eatons Neck, overlooking Long Island Sound in Huntington, New York. A 1798 Treasury Department contract with John McComb, Jr. called for an octagonal stone tower, an iron lantern, an oil vault, a well and a frame keeper's dwelling. The tower originally rose fifty feet above its foundation and had walls four feet thick at the base. It was refitted with a new lantern and lens in 1858, and parts of the stonework were rebuilt and sheathed in iron. It now stands six stories tall and carries a flashing white light 144 feet above sea level, automated in 1972. The oil vault and dwelling have left no surface remains. The light is one of three McComb designed lighthouses and one of two eighteenth-century lighthouses surviving in New York State. It has operated continuously since 1798, managed by the Lighthouse Service until the Coast Guard took over in 1933.","period_of_significance":"1798","architect_builder":"John McComb, Jr.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered, on its original site. The light was automated in 1972, and the connecting brick wing now houses equipment that operates the light.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.633243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001273.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001273/645d562bb4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001273/645d562bb4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"skapur","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eatons_Neck_Light.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">skapur</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eatons_Neck_Light.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322094","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eatons_Neck_Light","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890843"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/eatons-neck-light-73001273/"}