About a half mile from Headlands Beach State Park down a winding, sandy pathway, a red and white lighthouse comes into view at the end of a long breakwall.

It’s one of two historic lighthouses in the village of Fairport Harbor. What distinguishes this one, aside from being 100 years old and still a hundred years younger than the other, is that it leans hard into the “house” part of lighthouse, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a full kitchen and multiple living areas, all with stunning lake views in every direction.

“Lighthouses are beloved,” said Sheila Consaul, who lives in the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light, which was first illuminated on June 9, 1925. “There are so many books and movies and romance and drama and danger. I’ve never met anybody who was like, ‘Yeah, they’re o

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