Built: Feb 15, 1875

Type: Cottage dwelling with light on roof

Height: 49 feet

Status: Non Active

Location: Entrance to Columbia River

Deactivated: 1899 - Destroyed 1912

Lens: Fourth Order Fresnel

Keepers: H.C. Tracy(Charles W) 1875-1878 / Robert M. Lowe 1878 - 1881 / J.W. (Joel) Munson 1881 - 1899

Elevation: 50 feet

Notes: Point Adams Light was a lighthouse near the mouth of the Columbia River on the Oregon Coast of the United States. It operated from February 15, 1875 until 1899, when it became obsolete by the extension of the south jetty and the establishment of the Lightship Columbia in 1892. The Lighthouse Service decided to discontinue Point Adams and relocate the station. In 1899 the lighthouse was discontinued in favor of a new station at Desdemona Sands. The station was abandoned, and finally burned down by the Lighthouse Service in 1912.
1875-1881: flashing red and white, 10 s, fog signal 1881-1899: fixed red.  The light was changed from alternating red and white to fixed red in 1881 to reduce confusion with the nearby just-completed Tillamook Rock Light. The change caused HMS Fern Glen to run aground, evidently unaware of the change. At the same time, the fog signal was removed: it had long been criticized by mariners as being inaudible over waves crashing on shore.
The redwood Victorian structure was similar to Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, in Newport, in that it combined the living quarters and tower.