In 1838, this lighthouse was built on the north shore of Nantucket, between the beach cliff edge and Cobblestone Hill. In 1908, the government decommissioned it and replaced it with smaller ones further down the coast.

Famed engineer Frank Gilbreth and his wife Lillian came to Nantucket in the spring of 1918, looking for a beachfront property where Frank could recover from a wartime illness. They found and fell in love with the quirky remains of the lighthouse station.

The Gilbreth family are the famous Cheaper by the Dozen family, with their lives being portrayed in both book and film. They became a permanent fixture on Nantucket, visiting almost every summer. Here they are in 1923.

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