White Head Life-Saving Station
Building Name:
White Head Life-Saving Station
Architect:
Chandler , Francis W. (1844-1925)
Date:
1874 Altered, 1889
Address:
White Head Island, ME
Current Use:
Residential
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Notes:
This is an 1874 type Stick Style on the Maine coast. It is nearly identical in original design and alteration to the Surfside Life-Saving Station in Nantucket, MA.
Bibliography:
Gamage, David. "Growing Pains and Politics: White Head Life-Saving Station, 1873-1878." Wreck & Rescue 7 (August 2004) 6-13.
Gamage, David. "Our Sister Service: The U.S. Life Saving Service, 1878-1915: Whitehead Island Life-Saving Service, St George, Maine." The Keeper's Log Fall 2000: 12-14.
York, Eugene V. "Wick". "The Architecture of the U.S. Life-Saving Service." Log of Mystic Seaport 34 (Spring 1982): 3-20
York, Eugene V. "Wick", Ralph Shanks, and Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costano Books, 1996.
Photo Source:
White Head, ME Life-Saving Station Postcard View
Stick Style Architecture
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