Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
— — the small wooden one they almost forgot.
Not only on a wall.
“A short white wooden tower with the keeper's quarters built into the house below it. Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was lit in 1871 and went dark three years later when Yaquina Head, taller and farther out on the headland, took over the duty. The little light sat empty for most of a century before the town fought to save it. It is the only Oregon lighthouse with attached living quarters, and the oldest building still standing in Newport. from the studio
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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse stands above the north entrance to Yaquina Bay in Newport, on the central Oregon coast. The structure was built in 1871 to a Charles Stevens design, with a 40-foot wooden tower rising from a two-storey clapboard keeper's house — the only Oregon lighthouse with attached living quarters. It was lit on November 3, 1871, and decommissioned on October 1, 1874, when Yaquina Head Lighthouse, four miles north and far taller, took over coastal duty. The site is now Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974.
The lighthouse is wooden, not stone, and that is part of why it survived as a curiosity rather than a working light. The Stevens design joined a residence and a tower under one roofline, an East-Coast pattern that did not scale well to the exposed Pacific headlands. After only three years it was clear the light was too low and too far inland to warn ships rounding the headland, and the keeper moved north to Yaquina Head. The building was used briefly by the Coast Guard, nearly demolished in 1946, and rescued in 1956 by a citizens' campaign led by Lincoln County residents.
The lighthouse is open daily as a free museum, with hours that shift slightly between summer and winter; check Oregon State Parks for current schedule. It sits inside Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site at the north end of the bridge, and the grounds give a direct view down the bay and out toward the bar. Volunteers from the Friends of Yaquina Lighthouses staff the interior, where the keeper's quarters have been furnished to the 1870s period. Parking is at the state park lot just off Highway 101.