Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Vermont

If you happen to be driving on US 7 in Vermont passing through the town of Shelburne, be prepared to see something unusual. No, you're not dreaming, lying just off the highway is a lighthouse! Located on the grounds of the Shelburne Museum, which has over 39 exhibition buildings featuring Americana, the Colchester Reef Lighthouse is one of the museums main attractions.

$20,000 was allocated for the construction of the light and it was completed in 1871. The plan was a wooden structure of Second Empire design with 4 bedrooms on the second floor and a kitchen, living room and oil room on the first floor. The design for this lighthouse was used in later years at lighthouses in Rhode Island's Naragansett Bay as well.

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$20,000 was allocated for the construction of the light and it was completed in 1871. The plan was a wooden structure of Second Empire design with 4 bedrooms on the second floor and a kitchen, living room and oil room on the first floor. The design for this lighthouse was used in later years at lighthouses in Rhode Island's Naragansett Bay as well.

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Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Vermont