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Managing Organization:
East Brother Light Station
Telephone: 510-233-2385
Website: http://www.ebls.org
Email:
Contact Address Information:
117 Park Place
Richmond
California, 94801, United States
Notes:
After the light was automated in 1969, local preservationists organized to preserve the station. The station is now operated as a bed and breakfast inn and the proceeds help maintain the property. Leased by U.S. Coast Guard to East Brother Light Station, Inc.
Tower Height: 48
Height of Focal Plane: 61
Characteristic and Range: White flash every 5 seconds.
Description of Tower: Square wood tower attached to keeper's house; buff colored.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
Two story Victorian wood keeper's house integral to tower, 1874 wood fog signal building, assistant keeper's house, equipment building, cistern, water tank.
Date Established: 1874
Date Present Tower Built: 1874
Date Automated: 1969
Optics: 1874: Fourth order Fresnel lens; now FA 251.
Fog Signal: Originally steam whistles.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, bed and breakfast inn.
Open To Public? Yes.
Directions:
From Marin: Cross the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Take the first exit past the toll plaza (Richmond Parkway), cross under the freeway, then take right on-ramp for I-580 west, heading back toward the bridge. Just before the toll plaza take Point Molate exit (right). Follow the signs to Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor. From East Bay: From I-80 (either direction) take San Rafael exit to I-580 west toward Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Just before toll plaza take Point Molate exit. Follow signs to Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor.
Mapquest URL: Click here to get a map to this lighthouse!
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Samuel M. Farran (1874-1880), George B. Koons (1880), Charles F. Winsor (1880-1887), P. J. Quinlan (1887-1894), John O. Stenmark (1894-1914), John P. Kofod (1914-1921), Herbert Luff (1921), J. Dunn (1921-1922), Willard Miller (1922-1942), J. S. McGrath (1942-1944), E. P. Perry (1944-?), Mickey Edward Thurman (Coast Guard, c. 1944-1947); FIRST ASSISTANTS: John Cawley (1874-1881), Joseph M. Page (1881-1883), Albert Tippett (1883-1886), Charles A. Paulson (1886-1888), Charles McCarthy (1889-1890), Martin Haave (1890-1893), James Anderson (1893-1901), Oscar Sellman (1901), Charles A. Paulson (1901-1902), John W. Astrom (1902-?), Andrew Szarnecke (1908-?), C. E. Clark (1909-1918), E. C. Easton (1918), D. O. Kinyon (1918-?), W. Monette (1919-?), A. H. Joost (1921), T. F. Brown (1921-?), F. L. Pike (1922-1926), Roy L. Murphy (1926-1928), Frederick S. Cobb (1928-1930), J. H. Sylvia (1930), W. J. Atkins (1931-1936), Earl Snodgrass (1936-1943), Frank Dacosta (1943-?); SECOND ASSISTANTS: P. Moran (1874-?), James Rankin (c. 1878), William McCarthy (1878-1880)
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