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This lighthouse complex consisted of a one-story, Spanish Colonial keeper's house (built in 1911), a 1907 oil house, and a 1960s-vintage generator building; the original keeper's house, a fog signal, and coal chutes were removed. The current 52-foot lightower is the third located in this location. An original tower designed to accommodate an Argand lamp was torn down shortly after its erection so that one containing a more modern, first-order Fresnel lens could be put in place. This occurred in 1856. By 1880, the second tower needed to be propped up, and Congress passed legislation providing money for the creation of the existing tower, completed in 06/20/1882. This tower held a fourth-order Fresnel lens. The old first-order lens was not discarded and remains in the current tower.

Over the years, considerable changes have occurred to the Point Conception Light Station; three towers have been built since 1856, the last in 1881-1882. The original keeper's house was built, added onto, and then demolished c. 1911. In 1911-1912, a new brick and stucco house was built for the lightkeeper.