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[[File:Watkins 2005.png|350px|thumbnail|right|<center>#2005. Light House at Farallone Islands, <br>Pacific Ocean, c. 1875<br>Photo by Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) on Taber stock card</center>]]

[[File: SEFI 1957.png|350px|thumbnail|right|<center>Stonehouse, far left <br>Southeast Farallon Island, 1957</center>]]


<span style="color:#FF0000">'''Stonehouse, Southeast Farallon'''</span> was built as the original keeper's house on the marine terrace below Tower Hill, the spot chosen for construction of the lighthouse in 1853. On Southeast Farallon it was impractical to place the keeper's house at the base of the lighthouse as with construction of so many other lighthouses.

The house was lived in by keepers and their families for 22 years. In the 1850s it was occupied by four men—the Keeper, Assistant Keeper and two others. It was built of stone and brick, one and a half stories high with a kitchen and parlor on the first floor and two sleeping rooms in the loft. Each room was fifteen by 20 feet and had a fireplace.

By 1874 it was apparent that Keepers and their families and First, Second and Third Assistants and their families could not all be accommodated in the Stonehouse. In 1877 Congress appropriated funds for additional construction, and several projects took place: 
*1878	Victorian-style duplex built for Light House Keepers & their families
*1879	 Second Victorian-style duplex added. Two families accommodated in each house
*1880	 Modern Steam Siren fog signal constructed; replaced the blowhole whistle destroyed in 1875
*1880	Oil Storage erected next to the Lighthouse
*		Narrow gauge rail line laid, "Farallon Midland"