National Register Listing

Staten Island Light

a.k.a. Staten Island Range Rear Light; Richmond Light

S side of Edinboro Rd., bet. 402 and 426 Rd., Richmond, NY
Local significance of the structure:
Maritime History; Transportation; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.