BREAKWATER  detail
Detail of Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light watercolor by Thomas A Needham
 
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Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light, Ohio c. 1925 – image: 20 x 12
 
Built in 1925, it overlooks the entrance to the Grand River on Lake Erie. The white brick tower with its red roof, period windows and shutters marking its flanks, stands squarely on a concrete pierhead. The tower is now automated.