G installs the new 5th floor ceiling, an exact reproduction of the original, surviving parts of which were left in place.
Remember the oak ceiling we showed being built on Nantucket back in April? It’s now installed at Graves Light.
Karl Phillips puts the new oak ceiling panels in place.
Master carpenter Karl Phillips built perfect replicas at his Driftwood Construction shop, based on surviving original panels and the original architectural drawings.
Karl and G put the new oak panels in place up on the 5th floor library of the lighthouse. G is performing the trimming and shaping.
Karl did most of the other woodwork at Graves, too, including reconstructed oak windows based on the original casement design, interior oak window panels and sills, interior oak doors, and the mahogany staircase handrails.
As we’d previously noted, we decided to leave the original damaged ceiling panels in place, covering them with the new ones to give some future renovators a surprise.
Pretty much every day for the past twenty five years I’ve been looking out my window at Graves Light when I get up in the morning. It’s great to be able to follow all the work being done. How beautiful it shows it’s new clean service. This is what people were looking at when it was first built.