page_title: Sand Point Light
section_title: Restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Sand Point Light / Restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Sand Point Lighthouse, Escanaba, Michigan
context_page_description: The Sand Point Lighthouse is located in Escanaba, Michigan, United States, on Lake Michigan's northern shore. Since 1989, it has been an unofficial aid to navigation. Though it is an operational aid to navigation. The restored lighthouse is now open to the public during the summer months. It is also known as the Escanaba/Sand Point Light or the Escanaba Light.
  This Sand Point Light is one of two bearing that name in Michigan. The other is in Baraga.
context_section_description: The U.S. Coast Guard occupied the building until 1985 when they moved to a new location.  The abandoned lighthouse was then obtained by the Delta County Historical Society in 1986 with plans to restore it back to its original appearance.  With the help of the original 1867 plan of the building, the Delta County Historical Society began extensive research and fundraising for this immense restoration project.  The historical society first removed the aluminum siding to expose the original brickwork.  The roof was lowered to its original level, the new windows were bricked-in and the ten foot lopped-off tower was rebuilt.  Since the original lantern room and lens were not salvaged, the historical society had to look elsewhere for replacements.  They found a lantern room on nearby Poverty Island which had been removed from the Poverty Island Light Station there and was sitting on the ground next to the tower for nearly a decade.  In 1989, along with the lantern room, a fourth order fresnel lens was obtained from the Menominee Pier Light, both of which were nearly exact duplicates of the originals that once sat atop Sand Point Lighthouse and the lens was replaced.A photo of the installed Fourth Order Fresnel lens is available.  To finish the restoration, the lighthouse was painted white and the interior space was restored and furnished as a turn of the 20th century replica.
  After a dedication ceremony in July 1990, the newly restored Sand Point lighthouse was opened to the public.  Each year the lighthouse is open from Memorial Day to October 1, giving visitors a chance to climb the tower and witness what it would have been like to be a lightkeeper around the turn of the 20th century.  An admission fee is charged.
  The light is listed on the National Register of Historical Places, Reference #97001474.
  Name of Listing: Sand Point Lighthouse.  It is also on the state inventory list, beginning in 1989.
caption: Sand Point Lighthouse
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