Named to National Register

In a move long anticipated by its supporters, the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station on Atlantic Avenue has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The 1902 station, which is now a museum, was one of 30 such stations on Long Island’s South Shore, where crews  kept watch for ships in distress in the first half of the 20th century, and patrolled the beaches in wartime.

Now owned by East Hampton Town and overseen by the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Society, it had been moved from its original site in 1966, saved from imminent demolition, and turned into a private residence on Bluff Road by the Carmichael family. The family donated it to the town in 2007, and it was moved back to its original site and restored over the following decade.

The station was listed in June on the New York State Register of Historic Places. Such listings make properties eligible for a range of public preservation programs and services, among them state matching grants and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits, according to Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr.’s office.

The new designation makes the station one of more than 120,000 structures and sites in the state that are listed on the National Register.