St. George Island lighthouse
— a white tower the gulf kept moving around.
Not only on a wall.
St. George Island lighthouse, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A white-painted brick lighthouse at the west end of St. George Island, where the Apalachicola Bay meets the open Gulf. The original tower went up in 1833 and was rebuilt twice; the current structure is a 2008 reconstruction from the salvaged brick of the 2005 collapse. It stands 72 feet tall in a small park beside the keeper's house and a museum. The Forgotten Coast is the quietest stretch of the Florida panhandle, with long stretches of empty beach on either side and almost no built skyline behind it.
The place, in three passes.
Cape St. George Light, locally known as the St. George Island lighthouse, stands at the west end of St. George Island in Franklin County, Florida, on the Forgotten Coast section of the Gulf panhandle. The first tower was lit in 1833 on nearby Little St. George Island; erosion forced two rebuilds, and the 2005 collapse into the surf followed by a community-led salvage and 2008 reconstruction moved the tower to its present location in the village of St. George Island. It rises 72 feet to its focal plane and remains an active private aid to navigation.
The lighthouse looks out over Apalachicola Bay, one of the most productive estuaries in the northern hemisphere and the source of roughly 90 percent of Florida's historic oyster harvest before the 2012 fishery collapse. The Apalachicola River, the state's largest by flow, empties into the bay just west of the island and pushes a freshwater plume that shapes the marine life on this stretch of coast. The water on the gulf side runs noticeably clearer than the bay side, with a pale green cast in summer and a slate blue-grey through the winter cold fronts.
The lighthouse, museum, and keeper's house sit in a small park at 2B East Gulf Beach Drive, open to the public most days for a modest admission. Visitors can climb the 92 interior steps to the lantern room on clear weather days; the climb is closed in lightning. St. George Island is reached by the four-mile Bryant Patton Bridge from Eastpoint on US 98, about 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee. The dark-sky setting makes the tower a regular subject for night photographers in autumn and winter.
