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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Exterior

Panoramic photo of the outside of lighthouse and oil house

Standing 198.5 feet tall, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest brick lighthouse in North America. Today, the lighthouse still serves as a navigational aid and is managed in a joint effort by the United States Coast Guard and the National Park Service. To the left sits the Oil House. In 1892, this small brick building was built to relocate the fuel storage from inside the lighthouse base. Every day the lighthouse keepers would fill up and carry two containers of fuel from the oil house all the way to the top of the lighthouse. A brick sidewalk leads to the lighthouse entrance. The lighthouse is a cylindrical brick structure painted with a black and white spiral stripe, tapering upward from an octagon-shaped, red-brick and granite base and topped with an iron and glass lantern. A short flight of stairs leads to the doorway, which is framed in granite and surmounted by a classical pediment. The lighthouse is surrounded by a white-painted wood fence. The Oil House, a one-story load bearing-brick building with a wood-framed gable roof, sits just outside the fence. The two keeper’s quarters are visible across the grounds.

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Code: CAHA
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina
Latitude: 35.2368392944336, Longitude: -75.6029281616211

NPS.gov Collection

09/18/2015

06/30/2021

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