6-461: National Lighthouse Museum may refer to: National Lighthouse Museum (New York City) , New York, United States National Lighthouse Museum, Pohang , South Korea Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum , a defunct museum in Penzance, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-645: A nationwide Request for Proposals (RFP) for a National Lighthouse Center and Museum in 1998. The site selected was the St. George Coast Guard Station , a National Register of Historic Places listing and a city landmark, and the former location of the New York Marine Hospital and the Staten Island Quarantine War . On November 9, 2001, the New York State Board of Regents issued a charter to
18-563: Is a museum in St. George, Staten Island , New York City , United States, that is dedicated to the history of lighthouses and their keepers. It officially opened in 2015. The museum is located within the former Foundry Building of the United States Lighthouse Service General Depot, later the Staten Island Coast Guard Station . The American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee (ALCC) issued
24-658: The September 11 attacks in 2001, as well as the budget rising to $ 15 million. By that time, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) had spent $ 8 million on stabilizing the structures at the Coast Guard Station. In 2013, John Catsimatidis donated $ 105,000 toward the museum. The same year, the museum board was reconvened, and the EDC asked the board to procure $ 350,000 in exchange for
30-482: The National Lighthouse Center and Museum. However, the museum had trouble raising funds: by 2000, it had raised only 2% of the $ 5 million necessary to start operations, despite being in the second year of a five-year fundraising drive. As a result, the museum opening was subsequently postponed from 2001 to 2003. The museum board was dissolved in 2009, with officials citing slow fundraising activity following
36-545: The title National Lighthouse Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Lighthouse_Museum&oldid=1237790178 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Lighthouse Museum (New York City) The National Lighthouse Museum
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