ocracoke Light Station

National Park Service ~ Ocracoke, NC ~ 6,640 SF ~ Construction $3,031,275

St John Principal Ed Setzler served as AE Project Director for historic preservation due-diligence and full AE design services. AE services included historic preservation assessment, value analysis workshop, coastal hazard analysis, topographical surveying, HAZMAT assessment, full NEPA Environmental Assessment (EA), cost estimating, and HABS/HAER/HALS photo documentation for the historic rehabilitation of the 1823 lighthouse keeper’s quarters and light station campus at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The third oldest lighthouse in the United States, the wood structured keepers’ quarters and supporting wood buildings sustained severe damage during hurricanes Florence, Matthew, and Dorian between 2017 and 2019. The AE team’s comprehensive pre-design study, value analysis, and full AE design documents included the rehabilitation of foundations, roofing, stairs, doors, windows, and walls, resiliency upgrades for cultural landscape features, and the raising of the entire original wood structure of the 1823 keeper’s quarters by 2’-6” to protect it from sea level rise and storm surge during hurricane events.