Eastern Point Light Station

Eastern Point Light Station occupies a rocky promontory overlooking Dog Bar Reef at the eastern entrance to Gloucester Harbor. The one-acre site holds a complete set of buildings: a 38-foot cylindrical brick tower rebuilt in 1890 on its 1832 masonry foundation, a Gothic Revival double keeper's dwelling from 1879, a Shingle Style assistant keeper's house from 1908, an oil house, a long covered walkway ending in a brick building painted as a red and white daymark, and later fog signal and radio beacon equipment. The grounds are described as well integrated and massed. The station was listed as the largest intact light station in Massachusetts, retaining its period tower, dwelling, walkway, oil house and bell tower. It also has a link to the painter Winslow Homer, who lived in the lighthouse in 1880, during the years his scenes of the local maritime community became among his best known. Automated in 1986, it remains active.