Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
— a cast-iron tower that watched the rockets go.
Not only on a wall.
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A black-and-white banded tower, 151 feet of cast iron lined in brick, lit in 1868. The first lighthouse here sank in the sand within twenty years, so the keepers walked the new one half a mile inland in 1894. Now it stands a few miles south of Launch Complex 39. From the catwalk you can see the Atlantic on one side and the pads on the other.
The place, in three passes.
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse stands on Cape Canaveral itself, the seaward edge of the Space Force station in Brevard County, Florida. The first tower at this site was a 65-foot brick structure lit in 1848. Erosion and a low flame led the Lighthouse Board to commission a taller cast-iron tower, completed in 1868, that still stands. The cape's relentless southward erosion threatened the new tower within a generation, so the keepers disassembled and rebuilt it on the same plan about a mile and a half inland in 1894. The site is inside an active military installation; public access is by guided tour only.
The 1868 tower is 151 feet tall, built of cast-iron plates bolted in courses and lined inside with brick for thermal mass, the same construction the Lighthouse Board used at Hunting Island and Morris Island in South Carolina. The exterior bands are painted black and white for daymark visibility. The original first-order Fresnel lens, made by Henri Lepaute in Paris, served from 1868 to 1993 and is now displayed at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse museum. The current light is a modern DCB-224 aero beacon, active and Coast Guard maintained.
The lighthouse sits a few miles south of Launch Complex 39A, the pad that sent Apollo and the Space Shuttle and now flies Falcon and Starship. It is the only lighthouse in the United States inside an active spaceport. Public access requires a security-cleared guided tour from the Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation; private vehicles cannot reach the base. The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum runs related bus tours that include the lighthouse stop. Cocoa Beach, the closest gateway town, lies about 20 miles south on State Road A1A.
