16195. (photo) Restored Roosevelt Style Coast Guard Barracks, Umpqua River Station, Oregon c.1980.
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16195. (photo) Restored Roosevelt Style Coast Guard Barracks, Umpqua River Station, Oregon c.1980.
16195. (photo) Restored Roosevelt Style Coast Guard Barracks, Umpqua River Station, Oregon c.1980. Clear, close, original press photo shows excellent detail of the Coast Guard barracks building at Umpqua River, Oregon. In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), authorized the building of 45 United States Coast Guard Stations around the country. The United States Coast Guard took over the Umpqua River Lighthouse in 1939 and over the years there were constructed several new buildings including a barracks and a boathouse. The original lighthouse keepers’ dwellings were torn down in the 1950s. By the 1960s, the station was automated, but watched over by the service personnel of the nearby Coast Guard base in Winchester Bay and the Aids to Navigation team based out of Coos Bay. At some point, the Coast Guard vacated the station completely and in March 1976, the Coast Guard deeded the barracks and boathouse to the Douglas County Parks Department. On October 21, 1977, the Umpqua River Lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Interior. Douglas County restored the Coast Guard barracks building in 1980, shown here. After the restoration was completed, the ground story of the building was transformed into a lighthouse museum. Photo is b/w and measures 6 ¼” x 10”. Includes short caption on back. Clear, close view, good detail. (VG+). $36.