Tenants harbor maine history

George, Maine , United States. It appears in paintings by Andrew Wyeth and his son Jamie Wyeth, who have owned the lighthouse since It was established in on Southern Island, on the south side of the entrance to the harbor. The light was 66 feet 20 m above the high-water mark. By the s a fifth-order Fresnel lens replaced the original fourth-order larger lens.

A brick-covered passageway connects the tower and the keeper's quarters. Other buildings include a storage building , an oil house , a boathouse, and a hand-operated fog bell in a square pyramidal tower automated subsequently. The lighthouse was purchased in by Andrew Wyeth.

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His son Jamie now owns it. He reconstructed the white square pyramid bell house, and it is said to be a scaled-down replica of one of Lord Horatio Nelson 's cabins on HMS Victory. The light and the island are the subjects of paintings by the Wyeths, including some, from the personal collection of Andrew Wyeth and Betsy Jane Wyeth, which are at the Farnsworth Art Museum in a special Wyeth collection, and part of the museum's periodically rotating shows.

Jamie Wyeth has found the environs of Southern Island to be an inspiration for his art.