Yerba Buena Light

Yerba Buena Light
*Goat Island*
Yerba Buena Lighthouse
California
Location	Yerba Buena Island San Francisco Bay California United States
Coordinates	37°48′26.27″N 122°21′44.29″W / 37.8072972°N 122.3623028°W / 37.8072972; -122.3623028Coordinates: 37°48′26.27″N 122°21′44.29″W / 37.8072972°N 122.3623028°W / 37.8072972; -122.3623028
Year first constructed	1875
Automated	1958
Foundation	masonry basement
Construction	wooden tower
Tower shape	octagonal prism tower with balcony and lantern
Height	25 feet (7.6 m)
Focal height	95 feet (29 m)
Original lens	Fifth order Fresnel lens
Characteristic	Oc. W 4s.
Admiralty number	G4140
ARLHS number	USA-908
USCG number	6-4595
Managing agent	United States Coast Guard^[1]^[2]

Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Nearest city	San Francisco, California
Area	2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Stick/Eastlake, Lighthouse
MPS	Light Stations of California MPS
NRHP Reference #	91001096 ^[3]
Added to NRHP	September 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. 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 District Commander.

Keepers

Head

N. D. Tuttle (1875 – 1877)
Reinhold Holzhuter (1877 – 1880)
John C. Linne (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)^[4]

Gallery

References

↑ Yerba Buena Island The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 18 June 2016
↑ California Historic Light Station Information & Photography United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 18 June 2016
↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Yerba Buena, CA Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 18 June 2016

"Historic Light Station Information and Photography: California". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.

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