The Boat House and Boat Ramp were built in 1905. Light keeper Oscar Brown relied on a boat as his primary transportation, rowing to Tacoma several times per week for mail and supplies and using it to reach lighthouse chores when high tides covered the mud flat between the house and the lighthouse. In the 1950s, when the Coast Guard light keeper and his two-man crew watched over the lights at Point Defiance and Point Robinson, a motor boat was necessary, and over the years the light keeper also used boats to rescue people in trouble on Puget Sound. When the lighthouse was fully automated in 1963, the Coast Guard removed all staff and boats from the site. In 1993-1994, Points NE Historical Society contracted noted shipwright Mike Vlahovich to build a replica of a 16-foot wooden Coast Guard Surf Boat, and park visitors and school children watched him work. The boat, named the Browns Point, was launched during the 1994 Browns Point Salmon Bake. The Oil House, built in 1906, is a corrugated metal building originally located near the site of the first wood framed lighthouse, where it stored flammable materials such as acetylene, kerosene, and paint solvents to reduce the risk of fire. In the late 1930s it was moved next to the Boat House, later became the paint shed, then a general storage area, and was restored by Points NE Historical Society in 2018.