West Point Lighthouse
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| Location: | Seattle, Washington |
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| Foundation: | Surface |
| Year first lit: | 1881 |
| Automated: | 1985 |
| Tower shape: | square |
| Markings/Pattern: | none |
| Height: | 23 feet |
| Original lens: | Fourth order Fresnel lens |
The West Point Light, also known as the Discovery Park Lighthouse, is a 23-foot-high lighthouse on Seattle, Washington's West Point which juts into Puget Sound and marks the northern extent of Elliott Bay. Opening on November 15, 1881, and featuring a fourth-order Fresnel lens, it was the first manned light station on Puget Sound and cost $25,000 to build. It was illuminated with a kerosene lamp for its first 44 years, until it was attached to Seattle's electric grid in 1926.
The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It became automated in 1985, the last station in Washington to do so.
Under the National Historical Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, in early 2003, Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation applied to the United States Department of the Interior to take custody of the lighthouse from the United States Coast Guard and incorporate it into Discovery Park. The city was granted the property in October of 2004.
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