Crews removed a 92-year-old historic lantern room from atop a lighthouse in Scituate, Mass. due to concerns it could topple and injure storm chasers venturing to the lighthouse point to catch crashing waves.
A 50-ton crane lifted the lantern on Oct. 6 during an approximately two hour-long operation, says Mike Gnazzo, president of Cenaxo, a Willington, Conn.-based architectural restoration firm that managed the lantern removal. On Oct. 11, as part of a discovery process, crews demoed a non-original concrete slab poured atop the original slab, then placed a temporary roof on the lantern, to complete phase one of a three-phase lantern room restoration project.