Like most lights constructed on the bay in this period, Hawkins Point was a screw-pile structure, but of a unique configuration.

The square foundation had an outrigger on each side, so that the rectangular house, viewed from above, appeared to sit diagonally on its base.

The range light itself shone from a window in the second story of the house, while a second beacon was mounted in a tower on the roof.

This tower was removed in the early 1900s, leaving a curiously truncated roofline.

In 1924 the house was removed, and a skeletal tower erected on the iron foundation.