- Postcard 1912
- Base and Entry Door
- Entire Light
- Detail of Tower Telescoping
- Lantern Room
- Lantern Railing
- Smoke Stack
- Porthole
- Ship’s Door and Original Door
- Tower Interior
- Interior Brace
- Catwalk Door and Landing
- Watch Room, Hole in Floor, Fog Signal Removal Area
- Lantern Room Gallery Door, Hatch and Watchroom Ceiling
- Modern Optic, Battery Box, Pedestal, Lamp Changer
- View from the Top
- South Breakwater Lighthouse
- Exterior of Light
- Solar Panel
- Base of Port Holes
- Close Up of Exterior Rivets
- Base
- Steps on Base
- Ship’s Door
- Battery Bank
- Ladder up from First Floor
- Ladder to Upper Floors
- Second Story Door Electrical Panel
- Stairs from the Top
- Exterior Doors
- Upper Deck Door Platform
- Upper Deck Door Access Room
- Fog Detector
- Fog Horn
- LED Optic
- Old Fog Horn Location
- View of Breakwater
- View of South Pierhead Light
The South Pierhead Light was originally built as the inner light of a two-lighthouse range system operated in tandem with a partner light and fog signal farther from shore. A metal elevated catwalk about 2,000 feet long extended along the south pier from shore to these two lights, providing for safe access when environmental conditions were adverse. These range lights operated together until the 1920’s when the outer light and catwalk were dismantled and the pier shortened to its present length. Since then, the South Pierhead Light has stood alone. It has been an active aid to navigation ever since its construction.