OUTDOOR LAMP IN ESSEX CONNECTICUT, 1910

Essex is a beautiful Connecticut River town famous for its ship building history. The first warship in the revolution, the Oliver Cromwell, was built there in 1776. It was captured two years later.

The building upon which this lamp resides is dated to around the same time. I liked the lamp because of the embossed date and because it looks like something that came off a steamship from the same era. Perhaps it did.

 

The door next to it is not of the same era as the house.