Room With A View 1. The first job was to cut through a couple of feet of concrete at the top of the 17-foot tower to create a larger stair opening. The original masonry stairs terminated halfway up and ended with a ladder. 2. The octagonal frame was assembled on the ground and lifted into place-with openings for eight 4x6-foot windows. (Every other window has an operable awning panel at the bottom for ventilation. One window is split into two sets of double casements for emergency exit.) The 1845 lighthouse was what attracted marine-antiques collectors Alan Granby and Janice Hyland to this $400,000 property on nine-tenths of an acre overlooking Nantucket Sound on Massachusetts's Cape
