Level 7 – Lantern room

Dave on the walkway that surrounds the lamp room at the top of Graves Light. (Photo courtesy of "Chronicle," WCVB-TV Channel 5)

Dave on the walkway that surrounds the lantern room at the top of Graves Light. (Photo: “Chronicle,” WCVB-TV Channel 5)

Inside beaconThe present lantern, pictured, is solar powered. It’s not as elaborate or powerful as the huge first-order Fresnel lens, made by Barbier, Benard & Turenne in Paris in 1904. The original lens measured 12 feet tall and 9 feet across, and cast a 3.2 million candlepower beam of light.

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