Point No Point Light, Maritime lighthouse in Kitsap County, United States.
Point No Point Light is a 30-foot (9.1 m) square brick and stucco tower standing between the office and the fog signal building at the northeastern tip of the Kitsap Peninsula, where Admiralty Inlet meets Puget Sound. Its lantern room holds a fourth-order Fresnel lens installed in 1898, no longer in use. A 90-foot radar tower for the Vessel Traffic Service stands to the west.
Construction began in April 1879, and the station was completed in February 1880 with a fifth-order Fresnel lens in a 27-foot masonry tower. The first keeper, J.S. Maggs, a Seattle dentist, hung canvas over the south windows to keep the kerosene lamp from blowing out. The present 30-foot brick and stucco tower stands between the office and the fog signal building; a fog signal from New Dungeness was installed in April 1880, and a Daboll trumpet replaced the bell in 1900.
The keeper's quarters have housed the national headquarters of the United States Lighthouse Society since 2008, a nonprofit preservation and education group. The station's fog signal came from New Dungeness Lighthouse and was installed in April 1880; in 1900 a Daboll trumpet replaced the fog bell.
The lighthouse stands within the 60-acre Point No Point Lighthouse and Park, created by Kitsap County after 1997. For its first 40 years there were no roads, so supplies arrived by boat; today the site is reached by road near Hansville. The keeper's quarters has housed the United States Lighthouse Society headquarters since 2008.
The 1898 fourth-order Fresnel lens still sits in the lantern room, though it is no longer lit. Popular lore says lightning cracked it in 1931; records instead blame a faulty oil vaporizer tube that let explosive vapors build up in the light chamber, also damaging the tower.
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