In the uppermost level of the Borden Flats Lighthouse, a third of a mile from land, with a breathtaking view on all sides of Mount Hope Bay, the Fall River cityscape and the Braga Bridge, Kevin Ferias is at peace and at home. 

“It’s zoned residential,” he said. “It’s my home — it’s my second home.”  

For the past seven years, Ferias has been the lighthouse-keeper at what he’s dubbed the Borden Flats Lighthome. He’s intimately familiar with how the lighthouse’s beacon works — once a lamp flame lit by whale oil in 1881, then kerosene, now a solar-powered electric light.  

Although that part of the gig is fully automated, another part isn't: hosting guests who stay there overnight from across the globe. He rents the lighthouse’s furnished interior as a one-bedroom romantic getaway, which has quietly been one of the SouthCoast’s most successful attractions for years, selling out almost every night of the year to guests from as close as Fall River, as far as Hong Kong, and everywhere in between.

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