Bellevue Range Rear Light

Bellevue Range Rear Light

Bellevue Range Rear Light
Location	Wilmington Delaware United States
Coordinates	39.720315°N 75.517895°W / 39.720315; -75.517895
Tower
Constructed	1909 (first)
Foundation	concrete piles
Construction	cast iron skeletal tower
Automated	1934
Height	93 feet (28 m) (current) 104 feet (32 m) (first)
Shape	triangular pyramidal skeletal tower with balcony and light (current) square pyramidal skeletal tower with central cylinder (first)
Markings	black tower (first)
Operator	United States Coast Guard
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
First lit	2001 (current)
Deactivated	2001 (first)
Focal height	93 feet (28 m) (current)
Lens	Fourth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	F G (current)
Bellevue Range Rear Light Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	less than one acre
Built by	U.S. Lighthouse Board
MPS	Light Stations of the United States MPS
NRHP reference No.	06000313
Added to NRHP	April 26, 2006

Bellevue Range Rear Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the mouth of the Christina River on the Delaware River, Wilmington, Delaware

History

The Bellevue Range Rear Lighthouse is a pyramidal skeletal light tower built in 1909 on the grounds of a landfill. It was operated by resident keepers from 1909 until 1934 when it was automated. The Bellevue Range Rear light was deactivated in 2001 when the landfill grew too high to see the light, and a modern tower was built to replace it. The modern tower is an active aid to navigation. The Bellevue Range Rear Light is not open to the public.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Head keepers

• William E. Spicer (1909 – 1911)
• Linwood Spicer (1911 – at least 1917)
• William H. Johnson (1919 – 1938)

See also

• List of lighthouses in Delaware
• List of lighthouses in the United States