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- We loaded the heavy bench on the Miss Cuddy in East Boston.
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- Hard at work sealing the curved window panes of the lantern room at Graves Light.
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- Mike from CCI Construction waves as he starts work sealing the roof of Graves Light.
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- The original 1903 architectural drawing was our guide.
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- Here’s the Watch Deck (kitchen) door, from the inside.
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- The new hinge is in place, painted to match the outside of the Watch Deck door.
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- These custom-built stainless steel replacement hinges should last another hundred years.
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- The bench is bolted to the iron floor of the Watch Room as the center of our new kitchen.
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- Installing it as the kitchen centerpiece was the next step.
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- It took four of us to hoist the bench up the outside of the lighthouse, with wind making the job more adventurous.
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- Refurbished bronze ship lanterns will provide electric light to Graves.
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- Art Graves drills into the cast iron ceiling to prepare installation of restored ship’s lanterns.
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- Section of the curved mahogany bench for the Graves Light kitchen, built by NMT Woodworking.
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- Building a custom curved set of mahogany benches was a labor-intensive job.
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- Nat of NMT Woodworking with a section of the mahogany bench set he built for our kitchen.
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- The stovetop design, from computer to metal shop.
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- With his high school engineering education and his own imagination, Wyatt designs the stove.
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- Wyatt’s bronze stovetop, after it came back from the metal shop.
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- A new desktop is built of oak.
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- Its shape fits the curve of the lighthouse wall.
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- Finished, polished, and ready to go.
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- We built this out of an antique office desk, with a new curved top.
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- The staircases on all levels of Graves Light now shine with the new electrical system.
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- Dave and John haul up each lens panel.
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- A close-up of how we built the brass frame.
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- Wyatt designed the bronze frame by computer, and built a full-scale wooden mockup.
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- John and Randy assemble the flash panels to adorn the kitchen on the watch deck.
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- John, Dave, Joe, and Randy remove the 1970s lantern floor.
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- John Nelson and Randy Clark do the final fit.
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- All finished! (For now)
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- Jocelyn clears things up as we reach our final steps.
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- Three sections assembled on land.
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- Dave sweeps up by the first fire in Graves Light’s new potbelly stove.
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- We used the original 1905 chimney assembly in the granite to install the 2016 replacement.
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- The joint where the new assembly (left) meets the antique yacht smokestack (right).
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- In South Portland, Maine, the new chimney assembly is ready to ship to the lighthouse.
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- Jim and John fit the chimney into place.
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- A still from an inside-the-pipe video of John Nelson welding the assembly together at his Maine shop.
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- The Murphy bed under construction at NMT’s shop.
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- Nat Towl puts the finishing touches on the Keeper’s Suite.
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- Plenty of compact storage space on either side,
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- Folded out and ready. All quartersawn white oak.
