This 2009 photo of the base of North Head Lighthouse shows substantial time- and weather-related damage suffered by the iconic structure, which will soon see an upswing in exterior restoration work.

CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT, Wash. — Money is now in place to continue much-needed repairs to a popular tourist destination and an important historical structure on the Long Beach Peninsula — though not as much money as Washington State Parks would like.

The department requested $2.3 million to move into the next phase of work on North Head Lighthouse in Cape Disappointment State Park near Ilwaco, Wash. Instead, state parks received $1.3 million.

Now, what they hoped to accomplish in only two phases — phase one was recently finished this spring — will be split into three, said spokesperson Virginia Painter. The funds received from the state’s 2015-17 capital budget, which provides money for various infrastructure improvements, will go toward stone masonry repair and replacement at the base of the lighthouse tower as well as throughout the lighthouse and other rooms.

Since the parks department received less money than anticipated, project managers are working to re-scope the project, and will need to request more money in the next biennium to complete the next phase, Painter said. There could be another phase of work after that to complete repairs and rehabilitation to the surrounding grounds, she added.

Still, the money will bring them a long way.

North Head Lighthouse celebrated its 117th birthday June 6, and is one of the few such structures to still have most of its outbuildings intact.

Phase one work, which began this February and wrapped up at the beginning of June, replaced and restored damaged metal work throughout the lighthouse and painted its red roof black, the same color it would have been over a century before when it was operated by the Lighthouse Keepers.

State parks has made other improvements to that portion of the park. Last year, contractors widened the narrow North Head Lighthouse Road, which leads to the lighthouse, improved the parking lot and carved out a paved multiuse trail through the trees parallel to the road.