Candle House, Woods Hole; Earl R. Flansburgh & Associates renovate a 19th-century stone candle factory on Cape Cod as the administrative heart of the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Interior Design, October, 1984 by Tucker, John G.

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, at the heel of Cape Cod, is one of hundreds of old fishing villages that line New England's coast. Woods Hole's economy was also tied to the hunting of whales. It lies just across Buzzards Bay from the port city of New Bedford, an important 19th-century whaling center. But whaling is now a dead, if not forgotten, industry. Kerosene and later, electric light, became less expensive substitutes for the creatures' clean-burning oil.

What has replaced whaling in Woods Hole is another industry--and one as thoroughly respectable. Within the town's midst are several research and academic institutions, one of which, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) whose Candle House building is featured here, is devoted to medical research in cells...

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