>>Click to enlarge (Size: 83,913 bytes)<< Indispensable for anyone longing to know more about Portland, Maine’s beloved Observatory and the man who built it. Filled with facts, anecdotes and archival drawings, this entertaining volume provides a complete history of the construction and restoration of a structure that withstood the Great Fire of 1866, 12 hurricanes, countless nor’easters and nearly two hundred years of deterioration and neglect. A ‘must’ for collectors of the Harbour Lights Observatory Replica. By John K. Moulton.