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The Lynde Point Lighthouse is located on the Long Island Sound in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, on the mouth of the Connecticut River. The original light was a 35-foot-tall wooden tower completed in 1803. When a new lighthouse was needed, it was designed as 65-foot octagonal brownstone tower. It was built in 1838 and lit for the first time in 1839. The new lighthouse was renovated in 1867 and the keeper's house was replaced in 1858 with a gambrel-roofed wooden house in Gothic revival style. The house was torn down in 1966 and replaced by a duplex. In 1852 the original lamps were replaced first with a fourth-order Fresnel lens and in 1890 with a fifth-order Fresnel lens. Lynde Point Lighthouse was fully automated in 1978. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Address: 102B Sequassen Ave, Old Saybrook, CT 06475-3116
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