Fire Island Light Station Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Fire Island Light Station Historic District covers about 98 acres of barrier island on Long Island's south shore, within Fire Island National Seashore. Its dominant feature is the black-and-white banded brick lighthouse tower, rising roughly 150 feet above a flat, low-vegetation landscape. The district has two main clusters of resources: the light station, with its keeper's quarters, terrace, boat house and archaeological remains of the first 1826 lighthouse, and a northern group tied to the Fire Island Wireless Telegraph Station of 1906 and the Radio Compass House of 1914. Those include barracks, garages, storage buildings, a pier and a boardwalk. The original 1981 listing covered only the tower, quarters and terrace; the expansion adds the related resources. Together they illustrate navigation aids for ships approaching New York Harbor, naval and Coast Guard use of the site, and early radio communication, over a period running from 1826 to 1960. Fifteen resources contribute and two do not.