The DOT Grant
In 2005, the Lighthouse received a Department of Transportation (DOT) grant of $844,323 intended to pay the lion’s share of restoration costs. Under the terms of this grant the Friends need to raise the difference between the grant amount ($844,323) and actual cost to restore the tower. This past year, the Friends completed a budgetary engineering estimate which conservatively set the restoration costs at $968,000 - plans now certified by the DOT as appropriate. The funds raised by the Friends of Sakonnet Point Lighthouse will be used to supplment the Grant funds and to contribute to her on-going maintenance. The Friends would apprecoiate any amount that you can contribute to this worthy effort.
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| Planned Restoration
Plans are set to re-bolt her external plates, re-weld rusted or broken joints and to repaint the entire interior and exterior of the tower. This will require removal and replacement of her central core of brick. The plans also call for repair of her windows, her weather doors, restoration of her light tower, and construction of better landing and access facilities.
Importantly, the Friends have also accounted for her on-going maintenance and are developing a maintenance budget for post renovation care. In short, she will receive repairs and a program of preventative maintenance to carry her long into the ages.
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