1446. Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station – Station House, Garage and Boathouse: Historic Structure Report. NPS. 2007
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1446. Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station – Station House, Garage and Boathouse: Historic Structure Report. NPS. 2007
1446. Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station – Station House, Garage and Boathouse: Historic Structure Report. Assateague Island National Seashore. Cultural Resources, Northeast Region, U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service. 2007. 192p. Soft wraps. The Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station station house, garage, and boathouse are part of the Assateague Island National Seashore (NS). The station house and the garage (the original boathouse) were built in 1922 when U.S. Coast Guard Station 150 was established at the southern end of Assateague Island in Assateague, Virginia. When the boathouse was constructed in 1938- 39 on Tom’s Cove to the north of the station house, the original boathouse was converted to a garage. The Assateague Beach Coast Guard station was decommissioned in 1967, and the same year the site became part of the Assateague Island National Seashore. This draft historic structure report for the Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station structures was prepared for Assateague Island National Seashore by the Building Conservation Branch (BCB) of the National Park Service. Historic Structure Reports provide a valuable foundation for the rehabilitation, restoration, stabilization or reconstruction of historic structures. Such a report is particularly important for finding or fabricating significant missing architectural details and other items that would have been found on such structures, and for documenting the history and changes to such structures over time. This allows one to recapture the appearance of a property at one particular period of its history, removing later additions, or substantially modifying existing historic fabric. In this case, the Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station was studied using evidence present at the site, historical documents found at the National Archives, Life-Saving Service records, logs, reports, letters from the keepers and more. The exterior of the three structures appear much as they did during their 1939-1967 period of significance. Using these and other sources, the authors are able to provide a detailed assessment of how the structure would have looked during the period of interest, and more. The report includes numerous period and current photos and diagrams, architectural plans, and excerpts from Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard books and documents, original specifications, and more for guidance. A most important reference for anyone interested in what the building would have contained and looked like. (M). $44.