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Oak Island Life Saving Station

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Built
  
1889 (1889)

NRHP Reference #
  
00001553

Area
  
1,600 m²

Added to NRHP
  
28 December 2000

Built by
  
Parkinson, J. Lake

Opened
  
1889

Architectural style
  
Stick style

Oak Island Life Saving Station

Location
  
217 Caswell Beach Rd., Caswell Beach, North Carolina

Oak Island Life Saving Station is a historic life saving station located at Caswell Beach, Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was built in 1889 by the United States Life-Saving Service. It is a 1 1/2-story, front-gabled frame structure. It features a large lookout tower projecting from the roof. It's siding trusswork, and brackets are characteristic of the Stick style. The station was sold to a private owner in 1938 and moved directly across the road from its original location.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Oak Island Life Saving Station Wikipedia