Built 1897 (1897)-1898 NRHP Reference # 78001942 Added to NRHP 30 January 1978 | Built by US Life Saving Service Area 2 ha | |
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Architectural style Shingle style architecture Similar Forsyth County Courthouse, Chicamacomico Life‑Saving Station, J S Dorton Arena, James B Hunt Jr Library, Bald Head Island Lighthouse | ||
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. 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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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