Recent Media
Press Releases:
May 22, 2021 – DCMM Announces Matching Challenge
May 10, 2021 – Christening of the Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower
October 28, 2020 – DCMM Selects Exhibit General Contractor
July 29, 2020 – Grant Helps To Build Maritime Lighthouse Tower Exhibit
June 29, 2020 – Maritime Lighthouse Tower Topping Off
October 31, 2019 – Maritime Lighthouse Tower Groundbreaking Announced
October 24, 2019 – The Boldt Company to Build Maritime Lighthouse Tower
October 18, 2019 – Capital Campaign Receives $1 Million Gift
The Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower expansion of the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay has generated a great deal of news media coverage.
August 13, 2021 – WFRV Local 5 Live Door County Maritime Museum: A look at fall events
August 9, 2021 – WFRV CBS5 Our Town: Exploring the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay
July 16, 2021 – Peninsula Pulse Maritime Wonders: Views from Sturgeon Bay’s Lighthouse Tower
May 26, 2021 – Peninsula Pulse Christening Day Arrives for New Lighthouse Tower
May 22, 2021 – Green Bay Press Gazette Door County’s tallest building opens with views from the top
May 22, 2021 – WFRV CBS5 Tower boasts a new view of Sturgeon Bay
May 22, 2021 – DoorCountyDailyNews.com Lights on at Tower Christening
May 20, 2021 – WFRV Local 5 Live Christening of the Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower
May 17, 2021 – Fox 11 News Sturgeon Bay maritime lighthouse tower provides panoramic view of area
May 12, 2021 – DoorCountyDailyNews.com – Maritime tower filling up
April 29, 2021 – Insight On Business Magazine feature on Door and Kewaunee Counties
February 19, 2021 – WTHR Indianapolis – Chuck’s Wisconsin Wonderland Adventure: Door County Maritime Museum
February 2021 – The Municipality (League of Wisconsin Municipalities) (Tower image and editorial by Sturgeon Bay Mayor Ward – page 6)
January 12, 2021 – Midwest Living: “What’s New in the Midwest 2021”
November 15, 2020 visit from WFRV Local 5 Live, with views from the top of the Tower.
November 4, 2020 story from Fox 11 about the Maritime Lighthouse Tower exhibits.
November 4, 2020 story from WFRV about Southern Custom Exhibits.
July 2, 2020 Lighthouse beacon room moved into place (Fox 11)
November 13, 2019 – DCMM Breaks Ground on Maritime Lighthouse Tower (Fox 11)
A brief video on the journey of the recreated Fresnel lens that hangs in the Beacon Room on the Baumgartner Observation level of the Tower.
Drone video of the July 2nd, 2020 Topping Off event with the raising of the Beacon Room structure to the top of the Tower.
Tower construction time-lapse video.
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