{"nrhp_refnum":"98000297","name":"US Coast Guard Station-St. Simons Island","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4201 First St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Simons Island","county":"Glynn County","state":"GA","lat":31.14526243000006,"lon":-81.37118490999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Maritime History","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2.5-acre Coast Guard station complex at 4201 First Street on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, built in 1936 to Coast Guard Civil Engineer's Office plans. It includes a Colonial Revival station house, garage, two storage sheds, generator building and signal tower.","why_significant":"The station is tied to a national effort to make coastal and inland waterways safer and to the federal government's mission to protect life and property at sea. It is also a representative example of the Colonial Revival style that federal agencies used in standardized designs during the 1930s and 1940s.","narrative":"This Coast Guard station on St. Simons Island, Georgia, occupies about 2.5 acres between St. Simons Beach and East Beach. Built in 1936 and commissioned in April 1937, it centers on a symmetrical, two-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival station house topped by a pyramidal watch tower. Around it stand a garage, two storage sheds, a generator building and a steel signal tower. The site was originally marsh, filled by WPA labor under Coast Guard supervision. Plans came from the Coast Guard Civil Engineer's Office, which produced standardized station designs; the Colonial Revival style gave the service a uniform national appearance. The station is significant for its connection to maritime safety and federal efforts to protect life and property at sea, and for its architecture. Its first crew of eleven men came from Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. The station closed in 1995, and the garage now serves as a nature education center. Its period of significance runs from 1936 to 1948.","period_of_significance":"1936-1948","architect_builder":"U.S. Coast Guard, Civil Engineer's Office","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The station ceased operations in 1995; the garage is currently used as a nature education center, and current function is listed as education-related.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.508501-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98000297.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000297/2ae9fe5aef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000297/2ae9fe5aef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Coast_Guard_station,_St._Simons,_GA,_US_2015.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Coast_Guard_station,_St._Simons,_GA,_US_2015.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208446","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Beach_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5327837"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/glynn-county/us-coast-guard-station-st-simons-island-98000297/"}