{"nrhp_refnum":"80000808","name":"Point Vicente Light","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Palos Verdes Drive South","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rancho Palos Verdes","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.74252491900006,"lon":-118.40958386536101,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse station on 17.79 acres on the Palos Verdes Peninsula at Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California. It includes a 68-foot concrete lighthouse and support buildings, mostly built in 1924, with the light built in 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the light was significant for transportation and commerce in the development of the Port of Los Angeles. Located about ten miles south of Los Angeles, it served as a landfall light and the last guide toward the harbor before the Los Angeles Channel light. The form also notes its Fresnel lens and local landmark status for 1920s architectural quality.","narrative":"Point Vicente Light is a Coast Guard lighthouse station on a flat cliff-top site of 17.79 acres on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific. The centerpiece is a plain white, five-story, 68-foot reinforced concrete tower holding a third-order Fresnel lens made in Paris in 1914, sent first to Alaska and moved to Point Vicente in 1925. Around it stand a radio room, fog signal house, paint and oil house, three keeper residences arranged in a semicircle, and two garages, nearly all built in 1924 with stucco walls and Spanish red tile roofs. The light, dated 1926, sits about 185 feet above the sea and projects a beam of 1.1 million candlepower. It was described as a landfall light and harbor guide ten miles south of Los Angeles, helping ships reach the Los Angeles Channel light at the port entrance. A local historical society recognized its early-1920s architectural quality, and a ghost legend tied to the lens reflection became part of its lore.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The Coast Guard radio station was decommissioned on 1 May 1980; the lighthouse is automated, and the 1966 operations building and transit barracks are not meant to be considered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.169364-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000808.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000808/8a57b4ed22-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000808/8a57b4ed22-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PKM","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Point_vicente_light_palos_verdes_detail.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PKM</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Point_vicente_light_palos_verdes_detail.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859422","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Vicente_Lighthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7208183"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/point-vicente-light-80000808/"}