Sakonnet Point Lighthouse offshore
— a cast iron light on a rock the sea forgot to take.
Not only on a wall.
Sakonnet Point Lighthouse offshore, 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 cast iron tower on Little Cormorant Rock, about a mile offshore from Sakonnet Point in Little Compton. Built in 1884 to mark the eastern entrance of Narragansett Bay, decommissioned in 1955, and re-lit by a local nonprofit in 1997. From the harbor on a clear evening it sits as a small dark thumb against the water. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Sakonnet Point Light stands on Little Cormorant Rock, about a mile southwest of Sakonnet Point in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The lighthouse marks the eastern entrance to the mouth of Narragansett Bay, where the Sakonnet River opens into Rhode Island Sound. The tower sits on a circular cast iron caisson founded directly on the ledge. The nearest mainland is Warren's Point and the small harbor at Sakonnet Point itself; the Westport River mouth opens a few miles to the east, across the Massachusetts state line.
The tower is a 66-foot cast iron caisson lighthouse, sometimes called a sparkplug type for its squat cylindrical profile. The U.S. Lighthouse Board erected it in 1884 over a Cambrian rock ledge that barely clears mean high water. The 1938 New England hurricane damaged the lantern room and shifted the cast iron plates; the Coast Guard repaired but never fully restored the station. The structure was decommissioned in 1955 and stood dark for four decades until a local nonprofit funded a full rebuild.
The lighthouse sits offshore on a small rock with no dock and no road. The Friends of Sakonnet Point Lighthouse, a Little Compton nonprofit, acquired the structure in 1985 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act and led a twelve-year restoration funded by local donations. The Coast Guard re-established the light as a private aid to navigation in 1997, flashing white every six seconds. The Friends run occasional summer boat trips out from the harbor when sea conditions allow. The closest reliable shore view is from the point itself.
