What on the earth is a figurehead? Don’t really feel unhealthy, I didn’t know what one was both. To me, they’ve all the time been these bare ladies statues on the entrance of outdated wood ships! 
From historic instances by means of the twentieth century, many ships mounted a statue of carved wooden referred to as figureheads onto the stem or bowsprit. They usually depicted a feminine deity, non secular personage, queen or the captain’s spouse or daughter. The explanations range however most tie to sailor superstitions that being on the entrance of the ship that they may information their means safely by means of the water. Typically the feminine depicted represented the ship’s allegiance, origin and loyalty to their house nation. They really served a sensible objective permitting different sailors and people on land to determine a particular ship because it approached. There, now we each know greater than we’ll ever must learn about ‘Figureheads’!
That is the ONLY home I’ve discovered with two figureheads, the one on the entrance above the attic vent is a mermaid whereas the one on the aspect is carrying a robe.
You will discover this home with two ship entrance figureheads on the nook of Amelia Avenue & Whitehead Avenue in Key West.
