Construction wooden tower (second) Material Wood | Opened 1890 Automated 1966 (current) | |
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Location Embarcadero Cove
Oakland
California
United States Year first constructed 1890 (first)
1903 (second) Year first lit 1966 (current automated beacon at the end of the pier) Deactivated 1966 (second) and relocated Foundation concrete pilings (second) Similar Carquinez Strait Light, Farallon Island Light, Fort Point Light - San Francisco, Humboldt Harbor Light, Roe Island Light | ||
Oakland Harbor Light is a former lighthouse, now a restaurant in Embarcadero Cove, California.
History
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.