Moving Day For Coast Guard Station- Your eyes aren't deceiving you. This is a house moving on water. In this case it's an unoccupied three-story, 15-room, 200-ton Coast Guard station being towed from sand dunes of this community near eastern tip of Long Island to nearby Star Island, inside Lake Montauk. The trip covered less than 10 miles and took four months to plan.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Moving Day For Coast Guard Station- Your eyes aren't deceiving you. This is a house moving on water. In this case it's an unoccupied three-story, 15-room, 200-ton Coast Guard station being towed from sand dunes of this community near eastern tip of Long Island to nearby Star Island, inside Lake Montauk. The trip covered less than 10 miles and took four months to plan.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1955]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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