Yes, today’s mystery is a cathedral, one of the world’s classical edifices. Your job is simply to tell us where it is located. Send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com, including your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, easily recognized another remote lighthouse. He wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Dry Tortugas Light, located on Loggerhead Key, a small, remote island that is part of a chain of seven small islands approximately 70 miles west of Key West. When the lighthouse was originally built in 1858, it was officially known as the Loggerhead Key Lighthouse, named after the island it sat on, which itself is named after the loggerhead sea turtles that nest there.
“Unlike most lighthouses of its era, the Dry Tortugas Light was built in 1858 of cast iron rather than stone or brick. It was added to the island chain to complement the smaller, less effective lighthouse that was built on Garden Key, two miles east of Loggerhead Key. At 157 feet high, the Dry Tortugas Light was the tallest lighthouse in Florida at the time of its construction. Also, unique was the choice to paint the top of the tower black so that mariners who were navigating the area during daylight hours could easily distinguish it from the nearby Garden Key Lighthouse, which was painted white.”
Sending in the photograph was Mickey Merkel of Berkeley Lake.
Also recognizing the mystery were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Lou Camerio, Lilburn.
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