Yerba Buena Light

Lighthouse in the San Francisco Bay, California

Lighthouse

37°48′26.27″N 122°21′44.29″W / 37.8072972°N 122.3623028°W / 37.8072972; -122.3623028TowerConstructed1875Foundationmasonry basementConstructionwooden towerAutomated1958Height25 feet (7.6 m)Shapeoctagonal tower with balcony and lanternOperatorUnited States Coast Guard^[1]^[2]HeritageNational Register of Historic Places listed place

LightFocal height95 feet (29 m)LensFifth order Fresnel lensRange14 nmi (26 km; 16 mi)

CharacteristicOc. W 4s.

Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

U.S. Historic district

Nearest citySan Francisco, CaliforniaArea2.7 acres (1.1 ha)Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival, Stick/Eastlake, LighthouseMPSLight Stations of California MPSNRHP reference No.91001096 ^[3]Added to NRHPSeptember 03, 1991

Yerba Buena Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay on Yerba Buena Island, California

History

The island's lighthouse connection began in 1873 when the Lighthouse Service moved the district's depot from Mare Island to the southeast side of Yerba Buena Island. In 1875 construction was completed on the 25-foot (7.6 m) tower with a fifth order Fresnel lens, brought from the recently decommissioned Yaquina Bay Light in Newport, Oregon. In 1886 another fifth order lens replaced the previous one. In 1933, a tunnel was bored through Yerba Buena Island to serve as a link between the east and west sections of the Oakland Bay Bridge. The light was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1958. It is currently an active aid to navigation and not open to the public. Now that the lighthouse is automated, the former keeper's quarters are now the home of the Coast Guard Admiral.^[4]

Head keepers

N. D. Tuttle (1875 – 1877).
Reinhold Holzhuter (1877 – 1880).
John C. Linné (1881 – 1885).
George B. Koons (1885 – 1888).
John A. F. McFarland (1888 – 1892).
Henry Hall (1892).
John M. Nilsson (1892 – 1893).
Richard A. Weiss (1893 – 1904).
Herbert H. Luff (1904 – 1921).
John P. Kofod (1921 – 1928).
Albert N. Speelman (1928 – at least 1935).
Lemuel C. Miner (at least 1940 – 1943).
John J. Woyner (1943 – 1944).
Wayne R. Piland ( – 1946).
James C. Moore (1946 – 1947).
Fred Zimmermann (n/a).
Wayne R. Piland (1953 – 1958).^[5]

Gallery

References

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Northern California". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
^ California Historic Light Station Information & Photography United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 18 June 2016
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Yerba Buena Lighthouse". www.us-lighthouses.com. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
^ Yerba Buena, CA Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 18 June 2016

"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: California". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yerba Buena Lighthouse.

View of lighthouse from San Francisco, with Bay Bridge detail
Short film study of the Yerba Buena lighthouse, including interior detail of fresnel lens.

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