- 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 Muskegon South Breakwater Light is located at the Lake Michigan entrance side to the Lake Muskegon Channel at the end of the southern arrowhead pier approximately one-half mile from shore. The lighthouse is a 63-foot tall pyramidal light tower was built in 1931 on the south side at the outer end of the arrowhead pier for the outer light of a range light system. The rectangular base of the tower is 10 feet tall and is the first story entrance and the 53-foot tall pyramidal tower stands on top of the rectangular first story. The top of the tower does not have a typical classical lantern room and is more of a blunt flat top that once held a large buoy style light that capped the tower, which has long since been removed. The current optic is a red LED aid to navigation. The tower and base are both painted red.
The tower’s interior is very sparse, just like the Pierhead Light. The floor and landings are all concrete, unpainted. The structure was not meant to be a manned or occupied, hence no other comforts for people. It was meant to hold and shelter equipment, and keep the light at the correct focal plane.