 Matthias Point was like no other screw-pile structure on the bay, with much decorative woodwork and a distinctive three tiered structure that some described as resembling a wedding cake.It was intended that this light replace that at Upper Cedar Point; in the end the number of complaints led to the latter's reactivation in 1882.Mathias Point Light itself was automated in 1951 and replaced in 1961 by a beacon mounted on the old foundation.