![Old Point Loma lighthouse 11](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Old_Point_Loma_lighthouse_11.JPG)
Cape Cod style was a style of
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mar ...
architecture that originated on Cape Cod in Massachusetts during the early 1800s, and which became predominant to the
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, where numerous well-preserved examples still exist. In such lighthouses, the light tower was attached directly to the
keeper's dwelling, and centered on the roof; entry was achieved through a stairway in the top floor of the dwelling.
![Long Point Light--Original built 1827](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Long_Point_Light--Original_built_1827.jpg)
No lighthouses built in the Cape Cod style exist today on the
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.
The original
Alcatraz Island Light, the first lighthouse to be built on the West Coast, was built using this style.
See also
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Cape Cod (house)
A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. Originating in New England in the 17th century, the simple symmetrical de ...
References
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Old Point Loma Lighthouse, a Cape-Cod-style structure
American architectural styles
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