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The Fitz Henry Lane House is a historic house at 8 Harbor Loop Road, on the harbor side of Rogers Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The three-story stone Gothic Revival building was designed and built in 1849 by the artist Fitz Henry Lane, and was his home until his death in 1865.
- Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)
- 1849
- Gothic Revival
- Gloucester, Massachusetts
Today, more than 150 years after artist Fitz Henry Lane's death, the house he built on Duncan’s Point in Gloucester remains standing. Its survival is no coincidence. As Urban Renewal came...
Commanding one of the finest panoramic views of Gloucester Harbor, the artist Fitz Henry Lane designed and built this austere but romantic granite house in 1848-49 with Gothic vaulted chambers, stone details, and an almost arbitrary interior room plan set high on a hill with grape arbors, fruit trees, magnolias, and terraces.
Fitz Henry's residence in Boston lasted from the early 1830s until his return to Gloucester in 1849, but his home addresses are not established. He had studios at various locations—7 Summer Street, 17 School Street, 16 Tremont Temple, and 28 Joy's Building at 77–85 Washington Street.
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Fitz Henry Lane died in his home on Duncan’s Point in August 1865 at the age of 61. It was reported that at his death there were at least three paintings in his studio that he was actively working on. Lane was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery here in Gloucester in the Stevens family plot.
Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane; also formerly, mistakenly, known as Fitz Hugh Lane; December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.
This tour starts in the Cape Ann Museum’s newly reinstalled Fitz Henry Lane Gallery, then continues with a walk down to the Lane House overlooking Gloucester’s working waterfront. The Museum is fortunate to have the world’s single largest collection of works by Lane, America’s premier marine painter of the mid-19th century.
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