Cape Lookout National Seashore, Portsmouth Life-Saving Station, Historic Structure Report
NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division and Jones TH. 2006. Cape Lookout National Seashore, Portsmouth Life-Saving Station, Historic Structure Report. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Atlanta, Georgia
The Portsmouth Life-Saving Station is the largest building in Portsmouth Village and has been a landmark on the island for over a century. It is the best-preserved example of some twenty-one “Quonochontuag” stations that the Life-Saving Service built along the eastern seaboard between 1891 and 1904, only ten of which survive today. The Portsmouth Life-Saving Station was constructed in 1894 with only slight modifications to a standardized Single-Style design and plan by Life-Saving Service architect George R. Tolman. Technological advances in the early twentieth century reduced the need for the Service, and, in 1915, it was merged with the U.S. Merchant Marine to form the U.S. Coast Guard. The station was re-activated for a brief period during World War II in the role of defense, and it was used as a hunting club after the war. This report contains historical and architectural data as well as recommendations for the continued preservation and treatment of the station.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Southeast Regional Office, Cultural Resources Division; Jones, Tommy
- Date of Issue
- 2006
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- CALO , HIST , SER
- Keywords
- Architecture, Cape Lookout, Coast Guard, community life, community relations, Cultural Resources, ehistory, George Tolman, History, Life-Saving Station, outbuildings, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Village, Preservation, Quonochontuag, rescue, Resource Managment, sufman, technology, U.S. Life-Saving Service
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 012512: Portsmouth Life-Saving Station , CRIS-HS: 012534: Portsmouth Life-Saving Station Stable