Cape Lookout National Seashore - Portsmouth, George Dixon House, Historic Structure Report
NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division and Jones TH. 2004. Cape Lookout National Seashore - Portsmouth, George Dixon House, Historic Structure Report. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Atlanta, Georgia
The George Dixon House is one of only twenty historic structures remaining in historic Portsmouth Village at Cape Lookout National Seashore. The house was leased as a temporary lodge for hunters and fishermen under one of the park’s special use permits until the mid-1980s but has now been vacant and deteriorating for over fifteen years. It is one of a handful of nineteenth-century structures remaining in the village. This report identifies needs that must be addressed in order to provide for the long term preservation and public use of the George Dixon House at Cape Lookout National Seashore. In includes a historical background of twentieth-century Portsmouth and the Dixon House in particular, chronology of development, architectural description, and recommendations. The report recommends that the exterior of the Dixon House be remodeled to its appearance before remodeling that occurred just after World War II. The interior was to be rehabilitated for modern use with care to preserve existing historic finishes.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division; Jones, Tommy
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CALO , HIST , SER
- Keywords
- Architecture, Cape Lookout, Coast Guard, Cultural Resources, ehistory, fisherman, George Dixon, History, hurricane, Portsmouth Village, Preservation, Resource Management, Restoration, World War II
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 012519: Dixon, George, House