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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
The keeper's house is the residence of the Coast Guard district commander.
Tower Height: 25
Height of Focal Plane: 95
Description of Tower: Octagonal white masonry tower with cast iron lantern.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1873 two-story Gothic duplex keeper's house, 1875 brick fog signal building, oil house.
Date Established: 1875
Date Present Tower Built: 1875
Date Automated: 1958
Optics: 1875: Fifth order Fresnel; 1886: Fifth order Fresnel (still active).
Fog Signal: Automatic horn.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation, housing for Coast Guard district commander.
Open To Public? no
Museum?
no
Directions:
Can be seen from Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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