Cape Lookout National Seashore - Portsmouth, Ed Styron House, Historic Structure Report
NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division and Jones T. 2004. Cape Lookout National Seashore - Portsmouth, Ed Styron House, Historic Structure Report. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Atlanta, Georgia
The Ed Styron House is a small, two-room house and one of only twenty historic structures remaining in historic Portsmouth Village in the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The house was built after a 1933 hurricane damaged the Styrons' old house on Sheep Island. It was leased as a temporary lodge for hunters and fishermen under one of the park’s special use permits until 1989, but it has been vacant and deteriorating since that time. Whatever its historical and architectural significance, the presence of the house upon the Portsmouth landscape is critical, given the small number of historic structures that remain in the village. With repairs, the Styron House could again be useful. This report identifies needs that must be addressed in order to provide for the restoration and preservation of the Ed Styron House at Cape Lookout National Seashore. It includes historical context, chronology of the structure's development and use, physical description, and recommendations for treatment.
- 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, Civil War, Cultural Resources, Ed Styron, ehistory, fishing, fishing lodge, History, hunting, hurricane, oral interview, port town, Portsmouth Village, Resource Management, Restoration, vernacular design
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 012516: Styron, Ed, House