FYI
I'm reading this book on lighthouses Lights & Legends by Harlan Hamilton.
I looking through the index and find a listing for the Worlds Largest Lighthouse. So I turn to page 31, and the author begins to descibe it as being on one of the most populous islands, standing more than a 1000 feet above sea level, sending two billion candlepower light a distance of 300 miles by air and 80 miles by land.


He states, "one of the world's tallest buildings is also its tallest lighthouse."


Answer:
New York City's Empire State Building

Believe or Not!

Unless I miss my guess, the keeper doesn't live in the building and he probably checks the air-conditioning etc. I would say that it is a beacon, a very tall beacon, but a beacon none the less.

That brings up the real question of.... Just what is a lighthouse? Around the Great Lakes if there isn't a house either where most of the lights are located or at least nearby, it is called a light.
Example:
Michigan City East Pierhead Light - HL123
Michigan City Lighthouse - Harriet Colfax for 43 years was the keeper of both the Lighthouse and the Pierhead Light

Were there guidelines in the naming of a light or a lighthouse?

I found this on the Empire State Building's official website...
www.esbnyc.com/html/body_tower_lights.html
They call it a beacon on their official website and that's good enough for me, especially since they agree with me.

SaintWackoPaul '
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To add the website link

[This message has been edited by engbrady (edited 10-10-99).]

WOW - I guess I've been to my first lighthouse then. Plus, since I worked there for a while, does that make me a keeper? LOL

Joanne

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How would you like to live on the ground floor and have to change a light bulb way up there.(without an elevator) ? Or sweep the stairs ?

"TheLightkeeper"