Baker Island Lighthouse



2020: Light Station Condition Assessment Report, 
2013:  Historic Structure Report, Barbara Yocum
2011: Light Tower transferred from USCG to NPS ownership
2008: Baker Island Light Existing Condition Report & Recommendations
1990: Keeper’s Quarters: Condition Assessment Report
1988: National Historic Register application
1957: Light re-established as Aid to Navigation (ATON)
1955: Light decommissioned as ATON, Fresnel lens removed (now in Pemaquide Fishermen's Museum)
190: Second wythe (layer) of brick built surrounding the first. The profile of the tower changed, showing less of a taper to the deck.

1855: Current lighthouse tower built, fitted with 4th order Fresnel lens.
1828: First lighthouse tower built
c.1869 (NARA)
The Baker Island Lighthouse, built in 1828, was the first in the region.
It was rebuilt in 1855. The picture to the left, the earliest known photograph, was taken c.1869.

The original rubblestone tower was south of the current one; the keeper's quarters building was to the northeast.

c.1879

This image dates to c.1879. The house is a familiar white clapboard building, replacing the earlier brown board and batten. (Seal Harbor Library)

c.1887-1902

Lightkeeper Howard Robbins, likely with one of his sons. 
This view is inaccessible now due to spruce encroachment. (ANP)

1897

 Ten years later, the tree growth is apparent. (NARA)