National Lighthouse Museum (New York City)

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 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.

[1][2] On November 9, 2001, the New York State Board of Regents issued a charter to the National Lighthouse Center and Museum.

[3] The museum board was dissolved in 2009, with officials citing slow fundraising activity following 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.