Historic Light Station Information

& Photography

TREE POINT LIGHT - ALASKA

1935 TREE POINT LIGHT TOWER & FOG SIGNAL BUILDING

Location: REVILLAGIGEDO CHANNEL

Station Established: 1903

Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1935

Operational? NO

Automated? YES 1969

Deactivated: 1969

Foundation Materials: CONCRETE

Construction Materials: CONCRETE

Tower Shape: SQUARE ATTACHED TO OIL HOUSE

Markings/Pattern: WHITE ART DECO

Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED

Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1904

Historical Information:

• Construction of Tree Point light station was completed in April of 1904. The station marks the entrance to Reviliagigedo Channel.
  

• Two weeks after the initial lighting there was what has been described as a "slight fire" that did some damage to the station. Repairs were made and the station was back in operation in a short time.
  

• In 1933 work began on reconstruction of the lighthouse. The work was completed in 1935 at a cost of $47,481.
  

• Station was automated in 1969.
  

1904 TREE POINT LIGHT TOWER, COURTESY OF THE TONGASS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. PHOTO WAS TAKEN IN 1926