Built: Post light 1887 / 1913

Type: Octagonal Tower attached to building

Height: 37 feet

Status: Active

Location: West Seattle, Elliott Bay

Deactivated: 

Lens: Fourth Order Fresnel / Automated in 1984

Signal: Daboll Trumpet / Automated in 1984

Keepers: Charles N. Elliot / Albert Anderson

Notes: No light was officially placed on the point until 1887. The owner of the point, Hans Martin Hanson, placed a lantern on the point in 1868 as a private navigational aid. When the Lighthouse Service officially established a hanging lens lantern at the point, Hanson was paid $15 a month to watch the light.
The Lighthouse Service decided to establish a more permanent light at the site. Edmund Hanson, son of Hans Martin Hanson, sold the site for $9000. The light was completed and lit in 1913. A fourth-order Fresnel lens replaced Hanson's lamp. The old lamp was displayed in the fog signal building. Two dwellings were built inland of the lighthouse. The Fresnel lens was eventually replaced by a modern optic in the 1960's.
In 1970, the old Hanson lamp was stolen. It turned up a few years later when a woman inquired at a Seattle antique dealer about a lamp her late husband had purchased at an antique store. When she learned it was stolen, she returned it to the Coast Guard. The lamp had not been polished since it had been stolen, and the original thief's fingerprints were still on the lantern! The thief was later found and arrested. Today, the lamp is in the Coast Guard Museum Northwest in Seattle. 
The original lens is at Admiralty Head Lighthouse and the lens lantern is at Seattle's Coast Guard Museum.  The lighthouse is open May-Sept (Sat and Sun).  The grounds are not open to the public, but tours of the lighthouse are available.