Indian River Life Saving Service Station, Delaware Seashore State Park
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Facts and practical information
The Indian River Life-Saving Station was established at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in 1876 to rescue mariners shipwrecked along the Delaware coast, as part of the United States Life-Saving Service. It was designed in 1874 as a 1+1⁄2-story board-and-batten frame structure with decorative brackets supporting overhanging eaves in a version of the Queen Anne style. It sheltered a surfboat which could be quickly rolled out through double doors facing the beach and down a ramp to the water. The main station house remains of what was once a complex that included a barn, stable, meat house, feed house and privy. An auxiliary boathouse stood about a mile to the south. The original plans for the station survive. ()
Delaware Seashore State Park
Indian River Life Saving Service Station – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Silver Lake, Indian River Inlet Bridge, Rehoboth Bay Marina of Dewey Beach, James Farm Ecological Preserve.