If I were to imagine the purest expression of a folk art architectural structure I could, this would be it. And very happily, it was accompanied by a card identifying its maker, Clifford M. Guptill, of Lubec, Maine (the easternmost municipality in the contiguous U.S.) who constructed it at the Lubec Lifesaving Station in 1910. (I've included a 1905 photo of that station found online; perhaps our Clifford is one of the men standing beside it!) All original, wood, in the best paint, with hand-cut glass windows, door that swings open, wood floor on the interior and another dividing it in two levels. To my eye, super satisfying and very elegant , almost Shaker-like in its spareness, a lovely thing.
15 7/8" l x 12" w (measured from roof corners) x 15 1/2" t. Beautiful antique condition. One cracked rear window, stable. Sound, sturdy, very lovely.
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