{"nrhp_refnum":"88003436","name":"Cape Lookout Coast Guard Station","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Cape Lookout","address_restricted":false,"city":"Beaufort","county":"Carteret County","state":"NC","lat":34.60329919150004,"lon":-76.53773446122577,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Military","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A deactivated U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat station on Core Banks, one of the barrier islands of the North Carolina Outer Banks, in Carteret County. The 5.39-acre district is centered on the Main Station, built 1916-1917, with a Galley, an Equipment Building from 1940, and several smaller cisterns, foundations and outbuildings.","why_significant":"The station is regarded as significant for its role in protecting coastal shipping near Cape Lookout Shoals, one of the most dangerous areas on the North Carolina coast. Its Main Station is the last known of three buildings built from the same plans and the only surviving station of that design in the state. The nomination also cites its association with early USCG history, its relatively unaltered buildings, and its role during World War II.","narrative":"Built on Core Banks between 1916 and 1917, the Main Station is a two-story, 44-foot-by-25-foot building with a central watchtower from which crews scanned the waters for ships in distress. It housed office space and living quarters for a crew of nine, and it sits on the highest ground in a district that also includes a galley, a cistern, and a 1940 equipment building with four large vehicle doors. The station was sited near Cape Lookout Shoals, which lay directly in coastal shipping lanes and made the area one of the most hazardous on the North Carolina coast. Its Main Station is the last of three buildings built from the same plans and the only surviving station of its design in the state. A 24-hour watch was kept from the tower until search and rescue operations ended in 1982. Many local crew members came from nearby communities such as Harkers Island and Beaufort.","period_of_significance":"1917-1982","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Austere interpretation of the Neo-Colonial mode of Georgian Revival (Main Station); vernacular (Galley); Southern type of Colonial Architecture (Equipment Building)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Decommissioned on 10 June 1982; search and rescue operations ceased 15 May 1982.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.087675-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/7194/47719426/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88003436.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88003436/00ba4e7961-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88003436/00ba4e7961-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Jarek Tuszyński","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Lookout_Coast_Guard_Station_-_2013-06_-_03.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jarek Tuszyński</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Lookout_Coast_Guard_Station_-_2013-06_-_03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719426","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Lookout_Coast_Guard_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15207396"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/carteret-county/cape-lookout-coast-guard-station-88003436/"}