Cape Lookout National Seashore, Coast Guard Station Boat House, Historic Structure Report
NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division and Jones TH. 2004. Cape Lookout National Seashore, Coast Guard Station Boat House, Historic Structure Report. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Atlanta, Georgia
The Life-Saving Station played a major role in the history of Cape Lookout, and the boat houses were crucial to the station’s operation. The old Boat House has the potential to be one of the park’s more significant historic resources if it were relocated and restored, and it is indispensable for interpretation of the Cape’s history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The boat house that is the subject of this study was the last of five boat houses that were built at the Cape Lookout Life-Saving Station between 1891 and 1924, and the only one that survived. The building was moved from the Coast Guard property to its present site a few hundred yards north of the Coast Guard Station in 1958, when it was converted to a residence. The treatment recommended in this report would include returning the building to its original, well-documented location at the Coast Guard Station and restoring the exterior to its appearance at the end of World War II. This report contains historical and architectural information regarding the Boat House as well as recommendations for its restoration and preservation. Historical documentation has been derived from the log books of the Cape Lookout Life Saving Station, the park's collection of maps and drawings from the Coast Guard archives, and the park's collection of historic photographs.
- 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, Boat House, boathouse, Cape Lookout, Coast Guard, Construction, Cultural Resources, ehistory, equipment, History, Life-Saving Station, lighthouse, log book, Preservation, Relocation, Resource Management, Restoration, surf boat
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 091830: Coast Guard Station Boathouse