It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, on June 15, 1987 as number #87001479 under Lighthouses of Massachusetts Thematic Group.

The United States Coast Guard Light List[2] description is "Square skeleton tower; brown to gallery; black above".

Its fixed green light is visible for 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi).

In August 1831, the townspeople of Marblehead requested that a lighthouse be built at the entrance to the harbor.

[3] This tower had an array of ten whale oil burning lamps inside an octagonal lantern.