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Related: About this forumRace is on to keep 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into Hudson River
https://www.voanews.com/a/the-race-is-on-to-keep-a-150-year-old-lighthouse-from-crumbling-into-hudson-river/7697578.htmlRace is on to keep 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into Hudson River
July 14, 2024 10:12 AM
By Associated Press
![](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-7128-08dca40e244a_cx0_cy5_cw0_w650_r1_s.jpg)
A ship passes the Hudson Athens Lighthouse, June 12, 2024, in Hudson, New York.
HUDSON, N.Y.
Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, and the structure, built in the middle of the river when steamboats still plied the water, is beginning to shift. Cracks are apparent on the brick building and its granite foundation.
While there are other endangered lighthouses around the nation, the peril to this one 100 miles 161 (kilometers) north of New York City is so dire the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed Hudson-Athens on its 2024 list of the country's 11 most endangered historic places. Advocates say that if action isn't taken soon, yet another historic lighthouse could be lost in the coming years.
"All four corners will begin to come down, and then youll have a pile of rock in the middle. And ultimately it will topple into the river," Van Calhoun of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society said during a recent visit.
The society is trying to quickly raise money to place a submerged steel curtain around the lighthouse, an ambitious preservation project that could cost as much as $10 million. Their goal is to save a prominent symbol of the rivers centuries-long history as a busy waterway. While the Hudson River was once home to more than a dozen lighthouses, only seven still stand.
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July 14, 2024 10:12 AM
By Associated Press
![](https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000-0aff-0242-7128-08dca40e244a_cx0_cy5_cw0_w650_r1_s.jpg)
A ship passes the Hudson Athens Lighthouse, June 12, 2024, in Hudson, New York.
HUDSON, N.Y.
Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, and the structure, built in the middle of the river when steamboats still plied the water, is beginning to shift. Cracks are apparent on the brick building and its granite foundation.
While there are other endangered lighthouses around the nation, the peril to this one 100 miles 161 (kilometers) north of New York City is so dire the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed Hudson-Athens on its 2024 list of the country's 11 most endangered historic places. Advocates say that if action isn't taken soon, yet another historic lighthouse could be lost in the coming years.
"All four corners will begin to come down, and then youll have a pile of rock in the middle. And ultimately it will topple into the river," Van Calhoun of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society said during a recent visit.
The society is trying to quickly raise money to place a submerged steel curtain around the lighthouse, an ambitious preservation project that could cost as much as $10 million. Their goal is to save a prominent symbol of the rivers centuries-long history as a busy waterway. While the Hudson River was once home to more than a dozen lighthouses, only seven still stand.
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Race is on to keep 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into Hudson River (Original Post)
sl8
Jul 15
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bucolic_frolic
(45,600 posts)1. Is it worth it? They could auction it off and move it to mainland
People love to live in lighthouses. Just not in the middle of the river.
GiqueCee
(1,156 posts)2. A good selling point...
... for the preservation is the cost to commerce on the river if passage is blocked or endangered by the collapse of the lighthouse. My bet is that preservation will be a LOT less money than cleanup after it topples into the river.
Send the bill to Rudy.