Historic Structure Report, Historical Data Component: Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina

摘要

The Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving/Coast Guard Station is on Hatteras Island within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The station functioned between 1874 and 1954, a period of eighty years, first as a component unit of the United States Life-Saving Service (1874-1915), then as a facility of the United States Coast Guard (1915-1954). Today, as part of the National Seashore, the surviving structures of the Little Kinnakeet complex exist on a 17.5-acre tract administered by the National Park Service. The buildings number three and comprise the original station erected in 1874, the station raised in 1904, and a kitchen/mess structure originally built in 1892 but modified substantially in subsequent years. The complex represents one of the few largely intact vestiges of this historically important government service along the North Carolina Outer Banks. The site has been deemed of sufficient value and integrity to warrant its preservation and interpretation to the public. The complex is further significant as representing the architecture of life-saving stations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.