{"nrhp_refnum":"87001484","name":"Nauset Beach Light","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Nauset Beach","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eastham","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.85419142100005,"lon":-69.95116383299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation","Architecture","Maritime History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Nauset Beach Light is a cast iron lighthouse tower on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Eastham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The 1877 tower was moved to the site from Chatham in 1923, and it stands with an 1892 brick oil house and an 1875 keeper's house.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its integrity of design, setting, materials and workmanship, and its association with the development of aids to navigation in Massachusetts. With its oil house and keeper's house, it is described as a good example of a late nineteenth century light station on an earlier site. It is rated significant at the state level under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Nauset Beach Light is a lighthouse station on a bluff 66 feet above the Atlantic in Eastham, Cape Cod. Its cylindrical cast iron tower dates to 1877 and was moved to Eastham from Chatham in 1923, where it had a twin. It is the third structure to mark the site, since erosion of the bluffs claimed earlier towers. The station once displayed a triple light that worked together with the twin light at Chatham and the single light at Highland in Truro. Nearby are an 1892 brick oil house with a cupola and an 1875 wood frame keeper's house in the Gothic Revival style, which was moved back and altered in the twentieth century. The original Fresnel lens is now displayed at the Salt Pond Visitor Center. The station was listed for its integrity and for its link to the development of navigation aids in Massachusetts, as a good example of a late nineteenth century light station, meeting criteria A and C at the state level.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Cast iron cylindrical tower; Gothic Revival keeper's house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unmanned and active; the tower is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.665146-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7891/63789149/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87001484.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001484/ffd46949ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001484/ffd46949ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jesse Lee Tucker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Clear_Day_at_Nauset_Beach_Light.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Lee Tucker</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Clear_Day_at_Nauset_Beach_Light.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789149","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauset_Light","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6981401"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/nauset-beach-light-87001484/"}