1816 Thatcher's Island Lighthouse Rockport Dwelling House Proposal

From a early New England newspaper dated September 16th 1816.

Dwelling-House on Thatcher’s Island.

PROPOSALS will be received until the 12th instant for building a stone DWELLING HOUSE for the use of the Keeper of Thatcher’s Island Light House, of the following materials, dimensions and description:

A Stone Dwelling House, thirty-feet long, twenty feet wide, one story of eight feet high, divided into two rooms sixteen feet by twelve each, with an entry six feet square and a porch in the rear, ten feet by twelve in the clear, as high as the eaves of the house, (with a chimney, fire place, and an oven in one end) to be lathed and plastered, and to have a double floor.

The stairs to be in the entry to go into one of garret chambers, which are to be lathed and plastered. There is to be a chimney near the middle of the house with a fire place to each room also, oven in one room, and iron or stone mantle trees cellar under the house, with sufficient walls well stoned, six feet high, and two feet laid up with good lime mortar. The walls of the house & porch to he two feet thick and laid up in lime mortar, with split undressed stone. The roof to be rectangular, the boards of which to be jointed and halved, and well seasoned, and covered with like good shingles. A sufficient number of windows well glazed, with shutters and the proper fastenings; also the doors to be hung on iron hinges, with thumb latches, and are outside doors to have good locks, The inside walls and ceilings to be lathed and plastered, with one coat of good lime mortar, and all the floors be doubled and nailed through. The wood work to he painted inside and out with two coats. The walls of the house to be well pointed with lime mortar and white washed twice over.


H. A. S. DEARBORN,
Superintendent of Light Houses in the State of Massachusetts.
Custom-House, Boston, Sept. 2nd, 1916.

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