This keeper’s house was built in 1827 by John Donahoo, in the same year he erected the Lighthouse (together called the Havre de Grace Light Station). This building is the original lightkeeper's home, 200 feet from the Lighthouse, and has now been restored to its appearance circa 1884.

John O’Neill (1768-1838) was appointed by President John Quincy Adams as the first keeper of the light in honor of his heroism in defending Havre de Grace May 3, 1813, during the War of 1812. John O'Neill, born in Ireland in 1768, immigrated to America at the age of 18, settled in Havre de Grace, and became a lieutenant in the 42nd Regiment of the Maryland Militia. He also owned and ran the town’s nail factory on South Washington Street.

John O’Neill lived in this lighthouse keeper’s house until his death in 1838. John O’Neill, Jr. took over the job and served until his death in 1863, when his widow, Esther O’Neill (1797-1883), became the keeper. Captain Henry E. O’Neill, the son of John Jr. and a Civil War veteran, succeeded to the post and held the job from 1878 to 1919; it was during that period that the upper floor was added in 1884. In a Harford County Living History Interview in 1981, George Taylor Lyon, Sr. (1896-1983) was speaking of a 1910 ice gorge at the Lighthouse and Lightkeeper’s House, when he said of the Keeper’s House, “They had a little peach orchard right in front of the house.” Harry O’Neill, son of Henry, serviced the lighthouse until it was automated and sold by the U.S. government in April 1920. The last lightkeeper was Harry (Buck) O’Neill who left this house in 1920.

In the 1920s a long outbuilding was added just south of the house that became a bar and dance hall. Between the 1920s and 1988, the property changed hands at least nine times as a bar and/or dance hall—Point Concord Night Club; Point Concord Inn (owned by Beulah Pensell in 1935); Point Concord Inn at the Lighthouse (in 1945); Reba's Ebb Tide (where Dan Lee’s new leather coat from Filene’s Bargain Basement in NY was stolen); the Home Stretch (owned by the Pissarros in the late 1950s before Johnny Languis and Reba Lee Brown ran it); Neptune’s Cove (early 1970s); Kracke Stone Barn; or Light House Inn in the 1980s. It was very popular, with live bands (including Tony Vincenti’s band), go-go girls, disco ball, and lots of parties.

In 1988 this property was purchased by the State of Maryland from Stanley E. Lloyd (1942-2008), a Jarrettsville investor and developer, and deeded it to the City of Havre de Grace. In 1989, a group of locals (including Jane Jacksteit and John Narvell) , named the Friends of Concord Point Lighthouse, began plans for restoring the keeper’s house to its 1884 two-story version with grant assistance and fundraising efforts. After considerable delays, and flooding from Hurricane Isabel in 2003, the keeper’s house was first opened to the public in 2005. It is now open to the public on a regular schedule and maintained by the Friends of Concord Point Lighthouse. This property received an award from the Havre de Grace Historic Preservation Commission in 2003.

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Built 1830, 4565 sq ft, 2 stories with basement, 36,000 sq ft lot, owned by the Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace.