2815f. (stereoview) Gay Head Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. c.1880 by S. F. Adams Shute Photographer, New Bedford, Mass.
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2815f. (stereoview) Gay Head Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. c.1880 by S. F. Adams Shute Photographer, New Bedford, Mass.
2815f. (stereoview) Gay Head Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. c.1880 by S. F. Adams Shute Photographer, New Bedford, Mass. Unusually clean and crisp view, providing a clear, close view of the 1856 station high on the clay bluffs with the keeper on the tower gallery cleaning the window glass. The handsome Gay Head Lighthouse stands in one of the most picturesque locations in New England, atop the 130-foot multicolored clay cliffs at the western shore of Martha’s Vineyard . The first lighthouse, a 47-foot octagonal wooden lighthouse was erected on a stone base, along with a wood-frame keeper’s house, barn, and oil vault and went into service on November 18, 1799. By 1854 the house and tower leaked to a point where a new brick tower and dwelling were constructed. A first-order Fresnel lens was obtained and installed in the conical brick lighthouse. Once again, due to the extreme dampness of the keeper’s house, the 1856 brick keeper’s house was torn down and replaced by a wooden house in 1902, thus dating this image to pre-1902. View is uncommonly clean and clear, providing a close view of the station buildings. (VG+). $185.