What is the location and meaning of Wyeth's Northern Point? what is
the significance of the tower?

Dear magster-ga;

I am posting this as a COMMENT for the time being. 

The spire on the roof in the painting appears to be a lightning rod
similar to the one seen in this photograph:

DAY CREEK
http://www.daycreek.com/dc/images/042801b.jpg

These globes, or glass balls were largely decorative though some
people were duped into buying them from unscrupulous salesmen who may
have claimed they provided added protection.

LIGHTNING ROD BALL
http://pages.antiquescollectiblesmore.com/7499/PictPage/1920977838.html

AUTOMATIC LIGHTNING PROTECTION
http://www.lightningrod.com/catalog6_oldstyle.html

Though I do not have a subscription to this magazine?s archive, I
believe you will find your answer in this TIME MAGAZINE article
?ANDY?S WORLD? dated December 23, 1963 in which the painting and the
lightning rod are briefly discussed. It says in part:

?The amber glass ball on a lightning rod in Northern Point looks to him "as if it
were spinning in mid-air." And after four days of straddling the roof top and?

TIME ARCHIVE
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,870626,00.html


Please let me know if this results in the answer you are looking for.

Regards;
Tutuzdad-ga