Sag Harbor whaling village
— — the port that smelled of oil before it smelled of money.
Not only on a wall.
“A deep-water harbor at the north edge of the South Fork, sheltered behind Shelter Island. In the 1840s a fleet of more than sixty whaling ships sailed from Long Wharf. The wharf still stands; the Customs House and the captains' Greek Revival houses on Main Street still stand; the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum holds the gear that came home. — from the studio
Sag Harbor whaling village, 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.
The place, in three passes.
Sag Harbor is an incorporated village on the bay side of Long Island's South Fork, straddling the line between the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, in Suffolk County, New York. Its deep, protected harbor opens north into Gardiners Bay and is sheltered from the Atlantic by Shelter Island and the North Fork. The village was founded in the 1690s and chartered as a U.S. port of entry by act of Congress in 1789. Long Wharf, first built in 1770 and rebuilt several times, still anchors the foot of Main Street.
Sag Harbor's whaling era ran roughly from 1760 through the late 1840s, peaking in 1845 when the village registered 63 whaling ships and a fleet tonnage that briefly outranked New York City as a customs port. The trade collapsed after the 1846 discovery of accessible petroleum and the destructive 1871 Arctic ice loss of much of the American whaling fleet. The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, opened in 1936 in the Greek Revival Benjamin Huntting House at 200 Main Street, holds the village's harpoons, scrimshaw, and logbooks.
The architecture is the visible record. Main Street and Madison Street carry one of the densest concentrations of pre-1860 Greek Revival captains' houses in the United States, most built between 1820 and 1850 with whaling money. The Sag Harbor Custom House, run today by Preservation Long Island, was the residence of Henry Packer Dering, the first federal customs officer for the port of Sag Harbor, appointed in 1789. The Old Whalers' Church on Union Street, designed by Minard Lafever and finished in 1844, lost its 187-foot steeple in the 1938 hurricane.