In July 1968, the Seamen's Church Institute moved to 15State Street. That year, theTitanic Memorial Lighthouse was donated by the Kaiser-Nelson Steel & Salvage Corporation to theSouth Street Seaport Museum. It was erected at the entrance to the museum complex, on the corner ofFulton andPearl streets, in May 1976, with funds provided by theExxon Corporation.[6]
In 2019, plans for a restoration were laid by the Friends of Titanic Lighthouse Restoration, whose members include descendants ofTitanic victims and survivors. In 2022, they talked about a potentialTitanic museum on Pier 16.[7] In April 2023, the Seaport Museum announced that it had hired architects Jan Hird Pokorny Associates to handle a restoration to be completed in 2024.[8]
^ab"Give Lighthouse For Titanic's Dead; Tower on Seamen's Institute Dedicated Before Those Who Created It.",The New York Times, April 16, 1913. Accessed December 21, 2023. "With services commemorating the heroism and sacrifice of the officers, crew, and passengers who went to their death with the Titanic, just one year ago yesterday, the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse Tower and Time Ball were dedicated yesterday afternoon at the Seamen's Church Institute, 25 South Street, in the presence of more than 200 persons.... Surmounting the tower is a time ball, to be hoisted to the top of a steel rod five minuters before 12 o'clock each noon and dropped when the time is flashed over the wires from Washington."
^"Dedicate Titanic Memorial Lighthouse",Edmonton Journal, April 15, 1913. Accessed December 21, 2023, viaNewspapers.com. "Today, the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, men prominent in church, business and shipping circles gathered at the Seamen's Church institute, on the lower water front to dedicate the Titanic memorial lighthouse tower erected to the memory of the men and women who went down with the ship."
