The 120-acre (49 ha) park, established in 1974, includes, in addition to the lighthouse and related station buildings, the ruins of Fort Pownall, built in 1757.

A narrow single-story brick work room connects the tower to the keeper's house, a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with its main gable oriented north–south.

Also standing to the west is the small brick oilhouse, with a single door in one side, and pent gable ends on its roof.

Further to the east stands the bell house, a roughly pyramidal wood-frame structure finished in wooden shingles.

[5] The Fort Point Light Station was authorized by Congress in 1834, and built on land purchased from William Clewley, the first keeper.