Nautical Passion

1^st Lighthouse Completed: November 20, 1908

A white, hexagonal, three-story, frame structure, with lead colored trim and a black lantern atop a brown, cylindrical, iron foundation.

2^nd Lighthouse Completed: November 15, 1926

A white, conical, metal tower topped by a black lantern. The superstructure rests on a black, trumpet shaped, iron caisson built into the breakwater. The pier is lined inside with reinforced concrete and the tower with brick. The whole structure is supported upon a heavy block of concrete lying within the breakwater.

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, designed by Paul Cret was the largest single-span suspension bridge in the world (1 3/4 miles) when it was finished in 1926.