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This forty-six-foot skeleton of a sperm whale is suspended from the ceiling of the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) Whaling Museum, which is located in a former candle factory on Broad Street. Built in 1846 by the Mitchell family after the Great Fire, it served as a candleworks until the 1860s, when the whaling era ended. In the years that followed, it served a variety of purposes: warehouse, office space, and eventually storage for antiques. In 1929 it was purchased by the NHA and converted into the Whaling Museum. It was renovated in 2005.