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Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse . The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Borden Flats Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001528.
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The property went on the market in 2012 and was sold in 2014 for $1.26 million. [6] In 2016 the building re-opened as the Hotel Napoleon with 56 guest rooms, a business center, and fitness center. The local architecture firm, UrbanARCH, was responsible for the re-design and conversion.
The Borden family owned the house in the late 19th century — the well-to-do businessman Andrew Borden, his second wife, Abby, Andrew’s daughters Emma and Lizzie, and live-in maid Bridget Sullivan.
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Front light in 1904 Rear light in 1904. The two range light towers are located in shallow water nearly a mile from the nearest land. The front range light is the smaller of the two, It is a cylindrical yellow brick tower, measuring 17 feet tall and tapering from 11 feet in diameter at the base to 10 feet in diameter in diameter at the top.
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The Borden house at 92 Second Street in the late 1800s. From 1872 to 1892, the house was the property of Andrew Borden, Lizzie's father, who was a bank president [3] and a member of Fall River high society. [4] After buying the house, Andrew Borden altered it so that instead of it being two apartments it would become one home for him and his ...