{"id":1301,"date":"2009-02-06T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2022-01-08T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:33:00","slug":"old-point-loma-lighthouse-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/old-point-loma-lighthouse-san-diego.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/point_loma_lighthouse_photo.html\">Point Loma lighthouse<\/a> was built in 1855 and operated until 1891. It was one of the original 8 lighthouses built on the West Coast and was designed in the Cape Cod style common to all of them at the time. East Coast lighthouses were then built on promontories and hill tops so it was natural to do so on the West Coast as well. This was soon realized to be a major blunder: the lighthouses were too high for the weather, above the low-lying fog that is common on the West Coast, and thus not visible to coastal mariners. In 1891 the Point Loma lighthouse was replaced by another one closer to sea level. The \u201cold\u201d Point Loma lighthouse, which has been refurbished to its 1880\u2019s condition, is now the principal attraction of Cabrillo National Monument and offers unobstructed views of San Diego Bay, North Island Naval Air Station and Coronado Island, Mexico\u2019s Islas Coronado and the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Old Point Loma Lighthouse, sitting high atop the end of Poin...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22301\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Old Point Loma Lighthouse, sitting high atop the end of Point Loma peninsula, seen here with San Diego Bay and downtown San Diego in the distance. The old Point Loma lighthouse operated from 1855 to 1891 above the entrance to San Diego Bay. It is now a maintained by the National Park Service and is part of Cabrillo National Monument\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/old-point-loma-lighthouse-aerial-picture-22301-320349.jpg\" alt=\"Old Point Loma Lighthouse, sitting high atop the end of Point Loma peninsula, seen here with San Diego Bay and downtown San Diego in the distance. The old Point Loma lighthouse operated from 1855 to 1891 above the entrance to San Diego Bay. It is now a maintained by the National Park Service and is part of Cabrillo National Monument\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Old Point Loma Lighthouse, sitting high atop the end of Point Loma peninsula, seen here with San Diego Bay and downtown San Diego in the distance. The old Point Loma lighthouse operated from 1855 to 1891 above the entrance to San Diego Bay. It is now a maintained by the National Park Service and is part of Cabrillo National Monument<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22301\">22301<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/san_diego_photos.html\">Photos of San Diego<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Point Loma lighthouse was built in 1855 and operated until 1891. It was one of the original 8 lighthouses built on the West Coast and was designed in the Cape Cod style common to all of them at the time. East Coast lighthouses were then built on promontories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,63,109],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beautiful-views-of-san-diego","8":"category-california","9":"category-san-diego"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}