Quogue Life-Saving Station

Quogue Life-Saving Station is a historic U.S. government building at Quogue in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1912 by the United States Life-Saving Service in the Shingle Style, as a replacement for a deteriorating 1849-built station.[2] It is a 1+1⁄2-story gable-roofed structure. It features a 4-story, wood-shingled tower topped by a hipped roof.[3]

1912 4-story tower, designed by architect Victor Mendelheff
Front on Dune Rd.

Quogue Life-Saving Station
Quogue Life-Saving Station is located in New York
Quogue Life-Saving Station
Quogue Life-Saving Station is located in the United States
Quogue Life-Saving Station
Location78 Dune Road,
Quogue, New York
Coordinates40°48′26″N 72°36′0″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1912
ArchitectMendleff, Victor
Architectural styleShingle Style
NRHP reference No.99000640[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 12, 1999

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1] The first Quogue life saving station was a garage-type building that was built in 1849 and involved with the rescues of the ships the “Infanti” (1851); and the “Europa” (1886). It was replaced in 1872 with a red house (wings were later added in 1887) and this life saving station participated in the rescue of the “Nahum Chapin” (1897); and the “Augustus Hunt” (1904). The original red house station still exists but was moved a few hundred yards eastward and is now used as a private home. The new Lorain style shingled Quogue Life-Saving Station with a four-story tower, designed by architect Victor Mendelheff, was built in 1912 and incorporated into the US Coast Guard in 1915. It is one of the few remaining examples of this type of structure and today it functions as a private home.

Well kept property on Dune rd was once the Lifesaving station the US Coast Guard used in Quogue.
Lamp detail- Lifesaving station in Quogue.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Station Quogue, New York" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard History Program. United States Coast Guard. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  3. "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 1, 2016. Note: This includes James Warren (April 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Quogue Life-Saving Station" (PDF). Retrieved August 1, 2016. and Accompanying eight photographs

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