New Bedford Yacht Club
Building Name:
New Bedford Yacht Club
Architect:
Hammond, Edgar B.
(1854-1937)
Date:
1880
Address:
Popes Island New Bedford, MA
Current Use:
Destroyed, 1938
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Notes:
This building was originally painted red. It has textbook Stick Style detailing, particularly on the porch. The twelve foot square tower is capped by jerkinhead dormers, iron cresting, and a sailing ship weathervane. Radically altered in the 1930's, it was all swept away by the 1938 hurricane. Hammond was a successful New Bedford architect as well as a decades-long member of the New Bedford Yacht Club. .
Bibliography:
Howland, Llewellyn. The New Bedford Yacht Club : A History. South Dartmouth, MA: New Bedford Yacht Club, 2002.
UMD F72.B9 N48 2002
Puryear, Thomas W. The Scholar Builders : Regional Architects of the American Renaissance, 1876-1913 : An Exhibition. North Dartmouth, MA: The Gallery, Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1987.
UMD NA715 .S36 1987
This work contains additional information on Edgar B. Hammond.
Photo Source:
Courtesy of the New Bedford Yacht Club2003
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