One of the few active New York lights – which is also a private residence – has listed $ 1.49 million

This is sure puts the house in the Lighthouse.

One of New York’s last active lights – still shines over Ontario Lake more than a century after his first beam – is now on the market for $ 1.49 million.

Welcome to the Braddock Point Lighthouse, a property strictly restored 130-year-old in Parma, near Rochester. While dozens of light lights paint large lakes, some remain operational – and even less are privately owned. That’s both.

“The house preserves much of its original integrity,” told Harlan Furbash, agent Keller Williams Realty who represents the list, for Democrat & Chronicle. “There are only many excellent stories here.”

“The current owner is one of only four private owners,” Furbush the post told.

Captured only west of Braddock Bay in a section known as Bogus Point – so called for his reputation as a drop point for counterfeit smugglers – Lightthouse was built in 1895 and first lit in 1896.

Ordered by the Congress to close a 100 mile navigation gap along the southern shore of Lake Ontario, it was built using elements saved from the light of Cleveland, including its decorated lantern room, cast iron stairs and third -order lenses.

The red brick tower was initially raised 97 meters, but the harsh weather conditions in the upstate received a fee. By the early 1950s, long vertical cracks compromised the tower structure.

The light was decomposed by the coast guards in 1954, and the upper was dismantled shortly thereafter. The property fell disadvantaged and was used by duck hunters before being bought in 1957 by Walter and Kay Stone, who began an ambitious restoration.

“I will never forget my first glance at this country,” Kay Stone previously told the Lighthouse Friends. “He had been careless, neglected and beaten by the weather for years, but resisted them all, and still remained proud and strong.”

Decades later, a wider regeneration in the 1990s culminated in the reconstruction of the tower at 65 meters and its reactivation in 1996.

Today, while the US Coast Guard still holds the lantern and inspects it every year, the rest of the property is privately owned – making it a rare example of a “Lighthouse Living”.

The ranking includes a 3,000 -square -foot Keper Victorian home with a large kitchen, an official dining room and a sun facing the lake, along with at least three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Lightthouse is glued home and accessible a narrow spiral staircase that lights up to a comprehensive observation.

The 1.15 hectare parcel also contains a 1,800 -square -foot transport house with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a six cars garage.

Historical documents, projects, original furniture and other ephemera have passed from one owner to another.

While previous owners Don and Nandy Town led the property as a bed and breakfast for more than a decade, it is currently used as a private residence and an Airbnb.

The cities, which were prevented from ranking on their wedding anniversary in 2008, later said they believed they were destined to buy it.

“They owned Braddock Point Lighthouse and led it as a very successful and familiar bed and breakfast, as well as a bed and breakfast in Florida,” Harlan Post told, adding that he was the one who sold it to them in 2020.

“The current owner turned the house into a private residence and it has been the opportunity to share in its history,” Harlan said. “Other opportunities in life have attracted it in a different direction and it’s time to pass the Braddock Point legacy for a proud new owner.”