Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station

	Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The former Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station
Location	N of Duck on SR 1200, near Duck, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°13′21.47″N 75°46′14.34″W / 36.2226306°N 75.7706500°W
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1897-1898
Built by	US Life Saving Service
Architectural style	Shingle Style
NRHP reference No.	78001942
Added to NRHP	January 30, 1978

Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Duck, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897–1898 by the United States Life-Saving Service near the location of Caffey's Inlet, a historic inlet that opened in 1770 and closed in 1811.^[2] It is a two-story, shingle style rectangular frame building with a hipped roof lookout tower. It has hip roofed porches connected by a shed roof porch. It was one of seven lifesaving stations established on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1874, to serve the ships that were lost in the treacherous waters off the North Carolina coast.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Mallinson, David J.; Riggs, Stanley R.; Culver, Stephen J.; Ames, Dorothea V. (2009). "The North Carolina Outer Banks Barrier Islands: A Field Trip Guide to the Geology, Geomorphology, and Processes". The ScholarShip at ECU.
^ Janet K. Seapker and Joe Mobley (n.d.). "Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-207, "Caffey's Inlet, Life-Saving Station, State Route 1200, Duck, Dare County, NC", 9 measured drawings

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Mallinson, David J.; Riggs, Stanley R.; Culver, Stephen J.; Ames, Dorothea V. (2009). "The North Carolina Outer Banks Barrier Islands: A Field Trip Guide to the Geology, Geomorphology, and Processes". The ScholarShip at ECU.

[nrhpinv-3] Janet K. Seapker and Joe Mobley (n.d.). "Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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