In 1856 the Lighthouse Board purchased a small plot and erected a stone pyramid on it, with a lantern placed at its peak.

The farmer lived at some distance from the light, and there were constant problems with the lamp being extinguished on stormy nights.

After requests through the first part of the decade, a permanent light station was established, with a round cast iron tower and a wooden keeper's house.

Like many other Lake Champlain lights, it was supplanted in the 1930s by a separate skeleton tower with an acetylene beacon.

Ironically, the cost-saving measure proved to be a maintenance drain in later years; by the turn of the century, the steel towers erected in the 1930s were in need of substantial repair or replacement.