The Vineyard’s local National Public Radio station is leaving its headquarters just steps away from the Steamship Authority in Woods Hole after 25 years in the village.

CAI, the Cape and Islands radio station, will be relocated from the historic Captain Davis house to the Cape Symphony’s Falmouth campus about four miles away, Boston radio station and CAI parent company GBH said in a statement Monday.

“We’re excited for CAI’s move to this new purpose-built location with Cape Symphony, an organization that shares our commitment to education, entertainment, and the people of the Cape and Islands,” said Susan Goldberg, president and CEO of GBH. “This investment in CAI’s local journalism keeps the station embedded in the community it serves while opening doors for it to welcome that community in with events and partnerships.”

The announcement ends a grassroots effort to keep the radio station in Woods Hole, and came at the disappointment of some members of the community. The Woods Hole Community Association raised $1.8 million and purchased the Captain Davis house with the intention to offer it rent free to CAI after GBH said it was planning to sell the building.

A group known as Save CAI posted a solemn statement on Tuesday, saying it struggled to understand GBH’s decision to turn down five years of free rent to instead move the entire radio station.

New location will be on the Cape Symphony’s Falmouth campus. — Ray Ewing

“In light of the multi-pronged attacks on public media and threats to funding, the community continues to question the value of spending hundreds of thousands to rebuild, relocate, and pay rent, but this is GBH’s decision,” the group wrote.

Ms. Goldberg previously said the move was being undertaken in part, because CAI was losing approximately $500,000 a year, and the studio needed upgrades to meet broadcasting standards.

GBH did not give a timeline for the move in its statement, though Save CAI said the relocation was expected to begin in the fall. The Cape Symphony’s building is adjacent to Highfield Hall and Falmouth’s Beebe Woods.

CAI will continue its programming uninterrupted during the move, playing its programs such as the Point and The Garden Lady.

As for the future of the Davis House, the Woods Hole Community Association will begin an open process to determine its best use after CAI vacates the building.

“We are enormously grateful to own this historic building in the center of the village, to preserve it for the commons for generations to come,” Save CAI wrote in its statement. “We hope you will remain involved as the community determines the future use of the building.”