Built 1897 Opened 1897 Added to NRHP 18 August 1975 | NRHP Reference # 75000159 Area 8,094 m² Nearest city Provincetown | |
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Architectural style Shingle style architecture Similar Race Point Light, US Life Saving Station, Wood End Light, Edward Penniman House an, Herring Cove Beach | ||
The Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station is a historic station, originally located at Nauset Beach, near the entrance to Chatham Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. It is now located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the end of Race Point Road, where it was moved in 1977 because it was threatened by erosion.
The station was built in 1897 as a U.S. Life-Saving Service Station, and became a U.S. Coast Guard Station in 1915, when the old Revenue Marine Service and Life-Saving Service were combined. De-commissioned in 1944, the station was under private ownership from 1947 until 1973, when it was finally purchased by the National Park Service. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The site is used as a park exhibit, and contains a Race Point surfboat and dory. Once a week during the summer, the Park Service holds live demonstrations of the deployment of a breeches buoy during rescues at the turn of the twentieth century.