Vermilion Life Saving Station, Shore of Lake Superior, 10 miles west of Whitefish Point, Paradise, Chippewa County, MI

Significance: The original 1876 Vermilion Life Saving Station building stands as the last remaining example (with some additions) of the 1876 Lake Superior-type station designed by U.S. Life-Saving Service architect J. Lake Parkinson, who designed four of this type to be built along the Lake Superior shoreline. The station complex is a significant example of U.S. Life-Saving Service and U.S. Coast Guard facilities constructed to aid navigation in treacherous parts of the Great Lakes.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1091
Survey number: HABS MI-446
Building/structure dates: 1876 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: before 1906 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work