Talk:Coast Guard Station Manomet Point

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I posted U.S.Coast Guard Station Manomet Point, Massachusetts. Does anyone have a comment or information to add to this topic? Nitestar57Nitestar57 (talk) 17:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for your start. I have given the draft a polish - feel free to amend and expand this further. Colonel Warden (talk) 21:45, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

My name is Noreen Farrar and I am the owner of the old 1874 USLSS station in Manomet, which is still standing and located at 37 Highland Terrace. I have some old photos of the station and would be happy to answer any questions. When it was deacquisitioned by the government in 1901, an entire new Coast Guard Station was build at the end of Manomet Point Road. Apparently, it burnt down in 1955 and was never rebuilt. Mine, however is still there and retains all of the lovely victorian gingerbread detail of the 1874 T-type stations. Hipshot26 (talk) 20:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Unsourced assertion in conflict

The 1874 T-Type station still exists as a private home in its original location. Some changes have been made to the building but most of the structural details are still in evidence.

When the Station was demolished in 1955 Carl Asker moved the boathouse and attached it to his house on State Road. The structure is still visible with the doors opening onto State Road.

The above two statements are both unsourced, and they conflict not only with one another, but also in certain ways with the documentation provided by the USCG. I almost removed the first of those statements entirely, for the 1874 structure cannot possibly still exist, given the fact that the station was clearly rebuilt at least once, if not twice. First, we have the following passage from the USCG History Project's document:

The 1901 Annual Report mentions that "the old station at Manomet Point, Massachusetts, which was dilapidated and antiquated, has been replaced by a new building."

That rebuild date, at least, correlates with the previous iteration of this Wikipedia article, which claimed that despite being built in 1874, the station "opened on April 1, 1901 with George B. Holmes in charge." (As an aside, note that Stephen Holmes was appointed as its first keeper, on October 15, 1874. George W. Holmes was the third keeper, but he wasn't appointed until a year after the alleged rebuild, on 4/4/1902.)

But it isn't just the unsourced statements that are dubious. The USCG's own document gets a little sketchy, too:

In 1922, the station is not listed, but must have been rebuilt during this period; subsequently, its listing included the footnote "including auxiliary boat and apparatus house, eastern entrance Cape Cod Canal." The latter was built in 1919.

Hence my hesitation about this station having been rebuilt a second time, which I havent added into the article at this time. I'll leave that to someone – perhaps someone with better knowledge of this specific station – who can corroborate or make sense of these facts.

Lastly, I don't know what a "T-Type" station is. Was that the style or design of the 1874 structure? The 1901 structure? The 1922 structure (if there was one)? Or perhaps all three? I just don't know. —grolltech^(talk) 03:16, 30 August 2018 (UTC)