Oakland Harbor Light | |
Location: | Embarcadero Cove Oakland California United States |
Coordinates: | 37.7813°N -122.2438°W |
Yearbuilt: | 1890 (first) 1903 (second) |
Yearlit: | 1966 (current automated beacon at the end of the pier) |
Automated: | 1966 (current) |
Yeardeactivated: | 1966 (second) and relocated |
Foundation: | concrete pilings (second) |
Construction: | wooden tower (second) |
Shape: | square on the center of keeper's house (second) |
Marking: | white tower (second) |
Lens: | Fifth order Fresnel lens (removed) |
Range: | [1] |
Characteristic: | Fl W 5s. |
Fogsignal: | struck every 5s. (bell) blast every 15s. (diaphone) |
Managingagent: | Quinns Lighthouse Restaurant & Pub [2] [3] [4] |
Oakland Harbor Light is a former lighthouse, now a restaurant in Embarcadero Cove, California.
The original tower was built in 1890 at the entrance of Oakland Harbor. The wooden pilings on which the structure sat had deteriorated by 1902, and a larger replacement lighthouse was constructed on concrete pilings nearby, which began operation in 1903. The original structure was then sold and removed. In 1966, the lighthouse was replaced by an automated beacon and deactivated. It was eventually sold to a private party and relocated to Embarcadero Cove in Oakland, where it opened in 1984 as Quinn's Lighthouse Restaurant. The lantern room was removed after deactivation in 1966, and was transferred to Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse in Santa Cruz, California, where it continued to deteriorate and was replaced in 1996.