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Why Hanover

Welcome to Hanover
Lantern, where our locally-
handcrafted products light
up communities and
businesses around
the world.

Our products include landscape lighting, post tops, signage, mailboxes, and custom accessories, all made from high-quality cast aluminum. These products serve residential, commercial, and municipal markets, and are distributed across the U.S. and internationally.

Custom

Hanover Lantern specializes in custom outdoor lighting and site furnishings crafted to meet the exact needs of commercial and residential projects. For more than 50 years, we’ve partnered with architects, designers, municipalities, and homeowners to create purpose-built exterior lighting, from historically accurate lanterns to modern architectural statement pieces.

  • Customized and made-to-order
  • 22 hand-painted finishes
  • Proudly handcrafted in America

Sizes

Hanover Lantern boasts an extensive range of lighting fixture sizes that will suit any architectural style, scale, and application. Whether you are illuminating an intimate garden path in your backyard or working to enhance the grandeur of a civic building, Hanover Lantern’s size options guarantee you can find the right proportion, presence, and performance for any project.

The Finishing Touch

For more than 50 years, Hanover Lantern has crafted American-made commercial and residential outdoor lighting built for durability, performance, and timeless design. Our diverse product lines provide the finishing touch to any outdoor space. Whether for luxury homes, mixed-use developments, or municipal streetscapes, our finishing touch will define your outdoor space as exceptional.

  • Customized exterior lighting solutions
  • Handcrafted in America
  • Enhance safety, create gorgeous curb appeal, and build long-term value

22 Hand-Applied Finishes

Hanover Lantern offers 22 standard, hand-applied finishes and 19 different panel options. Our range of finishes allows you to fully customize your outdoor lighting fixtures. Our premium powder coat finishes, available without upcharge, are applied using a multi-step process designed to resist corrosion, fading, and environmental wear.

  • Long-term durability
  • Complement traditional, transitional, and contemporary designs
  • Made-to-order

Coastal Friendly

Hanover Lantern’s finishes are well-suited for outdoor and coastal environments, offering durability that helps protect fixtures against the challenges of salt air and seaside conditions. For homeowners and designers near the ocean and salt-spray zones, our finishes provide elegance and exceptional durability. Hanover Lantern’s finishes and materials are crafted with outdoor exposure in mind, and we stand proudly behind our products as coastal-friendly.

  • Made in USA
  • Helps protect fixtures from coastal environments
  • Lifetime durability

Dark Sky Friendly

Hanover Lantern offers dark-sky-friendly lighting options and design construction that minimize light pollution and preserve our night skies. We understand that environmentally conscious homeowners, municipalities, and designers appreciate lighting performance that allows for a starlit sky. Our outdoor luminaires are designed to reduce glare, uplight, and unnecessary sky glow. As we continue to expand our line of fixtures, we keep the environmental needs of our customers top of mind.

  • Minimize light pollution
  • Reduce glare
  • Nocturnal animal friendly

5-Year Warranty: Commercial Use, Landscape, Mailbox, Signage

Hanover Lantern’s 5-year warranty applies to all our commercial products as well as our residential landscape, mailbox, and signage products. Our warranties demonstrate our confidence in the durability and long-term performance of our products. Our products are proudly:

  • Made in the U.S.
  • Built to last
  • Constructed of cast aluminum

Limited Lifetime Warranty - Residential Original Homeowner

Hanover Lantern’s Limited Lifetime Warranty applies to residential lighting fixtures and posts purchased by the original owner for residential use. All our LED systems are engineered in the U.S. and are backed by a 10-year warranty. Our warranties demonstrate our confidence in the durability and long-term performance of our products.

  • Engineered in the U.S.
  • Long-term performance
  • Built with confidence

10-Year LED Warranty

Hanover Lantern’s 10-year LED warranty guarantees that our products will operate properly for the life of the warranty period when they are installed, maintained, and operated under normal conditions. This warranty begins on the date of manufacture and covers LED arrays, power supplies, and associated components. Consumable components are excluded. Details of coverage are available in the product documentation.

Our LED products are proudly:

  • Guaranteed with L70 performance-based reliability
  • Manufactured and assembled in the US
  • Available in 2700K, 3000K, 4000K, and 5000K

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