14141a,b. (Lot 2 mounted photos) Stonington Harbor Lighthouse, Stonington, Connecticut c.1890. For more than 170 years, this modest stone citadel has stood at the entrance to the harbor of Stonington, Connecticut’s only port facing on the Atlantic. Now regarded fondly as a durable symbol of a seafaring  past, in its working years it performed the valuable service of guiding ships across treacherous Fishers Island Sound. The building is notable among lighthouses of its period for its fanciful stonework, with ornamental cornices around the tower and weighty granite lintels above doorways and windows. When it was built in 1840 it had a nearly flat roof with simulated battlements, but it leaked so badly that two years later local craftsmen were called in to install the gabled roof it has today. The lighthouse was acquired by the Stonington Historical Society in 1925, when it was converted into a six-room museum of local history and has been lovingly maintained since. The two original mounted photos measure 4 ¼” x 5 ¼” each and are clean save some light foxing to the mounts. One view provides a close image of the lighthouse, while the other is a distant view taken from the breakwater with the lighthouse in the distance. (VG). $94.