Rose Island Light
Newport, United States
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
Rose Island Light is a lighthouse on Rose Island in Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island, built in 1870 to an award-winning design by Vermont architect Albert Dow. It stands atop a bastion of Fort Hamilton, built in 1798–1800. Abandoned as a working light in 1970 after the Newport Bridge was constructed nearby, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and relit as a private aid to navigation in 1992. Today it is preserved by the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation and reached only by boat.
- Built
- Type
- lighthouse
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Height
- 11 m
- Place
- Newport, United States
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