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Managing Organization:
City of Sanibel
Telephone:
941-472-4135
Website: http://sanibellighthouse.com
Contact Address Information:
800 Dunlop Rd.
Sanibel
Florida,
33957,
United States
Notes:
Sanibel city employees lived in the keeper's houses and maintain the property. On September 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian destroyed the keepers house and all out buildings of the Sanibel Island Light Station. One of the tower's support legs and a brace were ripped from the tower and later found under three feet of sand. In November 2022 a work crew installed a temporary wooden support leg to the tower to stabilize it. Tower Height: 102 Height of Focal Plane: 98 Description of Tower: Brown, square pyramidal skeleton tower with central cylinder.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1884 one-story keeper's house, second keeper's house, oil house. cistern. Date Established: 1884 Date Present Tower Built: 1884 Date Automated: 1949 Optics: 1884: Third order Fresnel lens; now 300mm optic. Current Use: Active aid to navigation Open To Public? Grounds only. Directions:
Take Route 867 and the Sanibel Causeway to Sanibel Island. Turn left on Periwinkle Way, follow for about 4.8 miles and look for signs for the lighthouse. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: Dudley Richardson (1884-1892); Henry Shanahan [Shannahan?] (1888-1913, died in service); Eugene Shanahan (1913-?), William Robert England, Jr. (Coast Guard, 1946-1949).
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