This handsome gate in old green paint includes the Masonic square and compasses at top center. Combined with the gate’s star emblem and rayed motif, these symbols communicated the owner’s Masonic identity in an ornamental style that must have complemented the architecture of the building it protected. It is believed that the gate was owned by Lorenzo Dow Baker (1840–1908), an importer who brought a shipment of bananas from Jamaica to Boston in 1870. Baker’s efforts would eventually lead to the founding of the Boston Fruit Company in 1885. The company later became part of the United Fruit Company, better known as Chiquita. Baker joined Provincetown’s King Hiram’s Lodge in 1865, and became a charter member of Adams Lodge in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in December 1866. During the 1880s, he built the Chequesset Inn in Wellfleet on Mercantile Wharf. The gate may have been installed there or at his home.