Terrible Tilly for Sale, March 29

It got its name from those who served on the isolated, cold, wet Tillamook Lighthouse off the North Oregon Coast. Terrible Tilly, built in 1881 at a cost of $123,493 the lighthouse, about a mile offshore from Seaside & Cannon Beach, has sat dark since it was decommissioned in 1957. Investors bought it at auction in 1959 for $5,600. In 1973 it was sold for $11,000. The price kept going up each time it turned over. In 1978 it sold for $27,000. By 1980 the price had increased to $50,000 and the owners turned it into a Mausoleum with plans to hold up to 300,000 urns. Today the asking price is $6.5 million. You can only access the exposed basalt outcropping by helicopter. Terrible Tilly sits 133-feet above the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean. Time has deteriorated most of the building’s interior. The site and structure are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.