Point Santa Cruz

Point Santa Cruz, also known as Lighthouse Point, forms the northern end of Monterey Bay, and is now part of Lighthouse Field State Beach. In 1869, property owner Almus Rountree sold ~10 acres of the point to the US government to be the location of a lighthouse. The photo at right, looking west toward the point and the lighthouse, shows what is now West Cliff Drive entering the lighthouse reservation through an ornamental archway.

• Lighthouse Point: Illuminating Santa Cruz (2002 book)
• The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter One, item (1), page 1