Yerba Buena Light
Goat Island

Yerba Buena Lighthouse
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; -122.3623028
Tower
Constructed	1875
Foundation	masonry basement
Construction	wooden tower
Automated	1958
Height	25 feet (7.6 m)
Shape	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Operator	United States Coast Guard[1][2]
Heritage	National Register of Historic Places listed place
Light
Focal height	95 feet (29 m)
Lens	Fifth order Fresnel lens
Range	14 nmi (26 km; 16 mi)
Characteristic	Oc. W 4s.
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 No.	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, 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]

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