View of new station, Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station, Dare County, North Carolina
Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station (Rodanthe, N.C.)
Please note that some historical materials may contain harmful content and/or descriptions. Learn how we're addressing it.
Item information
- Title:
- View of new station, Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station, Dare County, North Carolina
- Topics:
-
Architecture
- Subjects:
-
Lifesaving stations
- Original Format:
-
Color slide
- Item identifier:
- buch0191
- Photographer:
- Buchman, Tim more info on Buchman, Tim
- Created Date:
- Genre:
-
Architectural photographs
- Location:
-
Dare County (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
-
Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Preservation North Carolina
- Collection:
- Tim Buchman Photographs, 1988-1998 (MC00583) held by Preservation North Carolina
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from Preservation North Carolina. For general information see the Preservation North Carolina website (http://www.presnc.org).
- RightsStatements.org:
-
In Copyright
For more information:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 - Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station (Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina)
- Architect:
- Mendeleff, Victor more info on Mendeleff, Victor
- Builder:
- Meekins, Theodore S. more info on Meekins, Theodore S.
- Built:
- Street:
- 23645 NC Highway 12
- Community:
- Rodanthe
- State:
- North Carolina
- Zip:
- 27968
- Provenance note:
- Lifesaving Service.
- Historical note:
- The lifesaving station is the most intact and best known in the state. The older structure was one of the original seven built by the Lifesaving Service. In 1911, Mendeleff designed the newer station, and the nineteenth century station, built in 1874, was converted to a boathouse. The lifesaving station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Location:
-
Rodanthe (N.C.)
- Subjects:
-
Historic buildings
Lifesaving stations
National Register of Historic Places
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 35.595572, -75.467413
- External Resources:
-
Chicamacomico Life Saving Station History
