![]() The Point Fermin lighthouse has featured as a filming location in several television series productions. The restored site was open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site and Museum. In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them. After being found and positively identified, on November 13, 2006, the lens was relocated to a display in the restored lighthouse museum from the real estate office of Louis Busch in Malibu, California, where it had been on display. The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades. A wood replica lantern was also installed. The site was refurbished in 1974 including a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists in 1974. The light fell into disuse and disrepair and the lantern room and gallery were removed. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and added to the National Register of Historic Places. The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942. There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes and ships. In 1941, the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Pelz who also designed Point Fermin's sister stations, East Brother Island Light in Richmond, California, Mare Island Light, in Carquinez Strait, California (demolished in the 1930s), Point Hueneme Light in California (replaced in 1940), Hereford Inlet Light in North Wildwood, New Jersey, and Point Adams Light in Washington State (burned down by the Lighthouse Service in 1912), all in essentially the same style. The lighthouse was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods. Point Fermin Light is a lighthouse on Point Fermin in San Pedro, California.
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