Large-scale blasting leveled the island off, and the two-story keeper's house was built with the attached tower and a fog signal building.

Originally from Sweden, Stenmark joined the lighthouse service at age twenty and distinguished himself for bravery during a boating accident.

On many foggy nights, they would have to fire up the steam boilers to drive the foghorns, hauling coal up the long ramp from the boat.

After the lighthouse was automated, the government wanted to tear down the keeper's house and other buildings, but protests from local residents prevented the demolition.

[3] After several years of neglect, a non-profit group, East Brother Light Station, Inc., was formed in 1979 to restore the landmark.