Location:
Wind Point, Wisconsin
Year first lit:
1880
Automated:
1964
Construction:
brick, Italianate bracketing
Height:
108 feet (33 m)
Original lens:
Third Order Fresnel
Range:
19 miles (31 km)
ARLHS number:
USA-894
USCG number:
7-20605

Wind Point Lighthouse (or Windpoint Light Station) is a lighthouse located at the north end of Racine Harbor in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is in the village of Wind Point, Wisconsin, on Lighthouse Road, next to the Shoop Park golf course. The lighthouse stands 108 feet (33 m) tall. One of the oldest and tallest active lighthouses on the Great Lakes, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Wind Point Lighthouse was designed by Orlando Metcalfe Poe and constructed in 1880. The beacon was originally powered by a three-wicked kerosene lamp magnified by a third order Fresnel lens. The light was electrified in 1924, and replaced by a DCB-24R airport beacon in 1964. The light can be seen for 19 miles (31 km). A signal house (horns removed) remains on the grounds as well as a garage, two storage buildings, and an oil house. The Village of Wind Point has maintained the lighthouse and grounds since 1964, and uses the old keepers' quarters as a village hall and police headquarters.
In the summer of 2007, the lighthouse tower
underwent a US$210,000 restoration, during
which windows and doors were replaced,
brickwork repointed, and the tower repainted.