Built: 1915

Type: Square attached to fog signal bldg

Height: 38 Feet

Status: Active

Location: Point Robinson

Lens: Fifth Order Fresnel / Present Automated 1978

Signal:  Horn/orig Steam Whistle

Keepers: 

Notes: Point Robinson began as a fog signal station on July 1885.  The original boiler and 12-inch steam whistle came from Oregon's Point Adams lighthouse.  A light was added to the station in 1887.  The lens lantern, shining fixed red, was attached to a 25 foot post.  In 1894, the post was replaced by a wooden tower which shown the light at 31 feet.
The current lighthouse was built in 1915, with a 38 foot tower and fifth order Fresnel lens.  The was automated in 1978, it still has the original fifth order Fresnel lens.
In the early 1990s, local residents caught wind of a plan to lease land on Point Robinson to a seafood-processing plant. The citizens joined together to form the Keepers of Point Robinson and, coupled with the Vashon Parks Department, they were able to negotiate a fifteen-year lease on the property with the Coast Guard. Starting in July of 2003, one of the two keeper's dwellings was made available for weekly rentals, and the second dwelling has since been made available as well. 
The lighthouse's Fresnel lens remained active in the lantern room until 2008 when, after more than ninety years of service, the Coast Guard replaced it with a replaceable plastic beacon, mounted outside the lantern room. Joe Wubbold, a retired Coast Guard Captain and volunteer keeper at the lighthouse, helped persuade the Coast Guard to keep the original Fresnel lens in place.