3D print the Blackwell Island Light
A free, printable model of the Blackwell Island Light, its grassy point and the water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 15 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
15 m of the Blackwell Island Light, 5 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Slim tower and thin cap
The tall, narrow shaft, the railed gallery and the pointed cap with its tiny tip are the most delicate parts. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly at a larger size.
- One piece with the ground
The Blackwell Island Light is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Blackwell Island Light takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Blackwell Island Light
The Blackwell Island Light, also known as Blackwell Island Lighthouse and later as Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, is a stone lighthouse that the government of New York City built in 1872. It stands in Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island, an island in the East River, at its northern end. Roosevelt Island was called Welfare Island between 1921 and 1973.
James Renwick Jr. was the supervising architect, and he also designed other buildings on the island. The lighthouse stands about 50 feet (15 m) tall and is made of gray gneiss, rough ashlar cut from stone that penitentiary inmates quarried on the island itself. Both the base and the shaft are octagonal. The entrance is on the south side, beneath a gable that projects forward and a pointed Gothic arch, and two slit windows light the interior.
A band of ornamented corbels sits below the gallery, which has an iron railing, and the octagonal lantern has a shallow conical roof. Photographs and film from 1893 and 1903 suggest it likely wore a far taller, steeper cap when built. The city, not the U.S. Lighthouse Board, operated the light, until about 1940. Restoration work finished in 1998, and the National Register of Historic Places added the lighthouse on March 16, 1972.
About this model
The Blackwell Island Light is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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