Old Gas Light Fixture

[Rob Amaral]

I see a lot of old gas-light piping, fixture-remnants, etc, but this is the first fixture with this much still in place that I've seen.. Cambridge, MA.

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[ghentjr]

I bought and renovated a three family in Saratoga Springs, NY that was built in 1850's and had been a boarding house at one time. The entire system was still in place. Very ornate.

[Tom Raymond]

My house had gas in every room for space heaters and lighting. Every inch of it was installed after the house was finished. Floor boards were removed and the tops of joists notched for the plumbing. When it was first electrified the sparky followed the same path.

There were no gas fixtures left when I got there, but I do still have a couple of the original luminares from the 30's (the house had indoor plumbing in the 1890's but wasn't electrified until after K&T fell out of fashion). The ceiling fixture from the front porch now illuminates the basement stairs, and parts of the original pendant from the upper stair were used to make task lighting over the kitchen sink.

[kurt]

Pretty cool. Good find. I've only ever seen one intact, and it wasn't in this good a condition.

[John Kogel]

It's missing the drip leg. Tsk, tsk. []