Jct. of Old Comers Rd. and Orleans Rd., Chatham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Barnstable.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 30, 1994. NRIS 94000996.
10 contributing buildings. 3 contributing structures.
The Marconi–RCA Wireless Receiving Station is a historic district at the junction of Old Comers Rd. and Orleans Rd. in Chatham, Massachusetts. It and its companion transmitter station at Marion were used for WCC, the busiest ship to shore radio station for most of the 20th century. The district includes eight red brick buildings constructed by Marconi in 1914 to house the station's operations; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and is now home to the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center museum.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793999