Edgewood Yacht Club is an historic

yacht club A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting. Description Yacht clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations. Yacht or sailing clubs have either a mar ...

Cranston, Rhode Island Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The official population of the city in the 2020 United States Census was 82,934, making it the second largest in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island ...

at 3 Shaw Avenue. The Edgewood Yacht Club was founded in 1889 and incorporated in 1902.

Clubhouses

A fire in 1908 destroyed the original building, and the structure was rebuilt that same year. The club was constructed by Murphy, Hindle & Wright in 1908 in a shingle style. The building was constructed on pilings over the

Providence River The Providence River is a tidal river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 8 miles (13 km). There are no dams along the river's length, although the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier is located south of downtown to protect t ...

, and is especially notable for having survived the storm surge that accompanied the 1938 Hurricane, as well as the one that occurred during

Hurricane Carol Hurricane Carol was among the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island in the United States. It developed from a tropical wave near the Bahamas on August 25, 1954, and slowly strengthened as ...

in 1954. The clubhouse was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

on February 23, 1989. The entire building was destroyed again by fire during the early morning hours of Wednesday, January 12, 2011. The fire began shortly after 4:00 am EST by lightning during an intense snowstorm; by 5:30 am, the building was gone. No one was injured, and officers say they plan to rebuild. What was left of the building was razed, save for the pilings, which now support a wooden dock. The slips and mooring field remain operational. Rebuilding of the new building started in March 2016 and was completed and opened in the Spring of 2018, just in time for the next sailing season. The new building was designed by Donald Richardson and resembles key architectural elements of the original building. The Edgewood Yacht Club building also houses the ''Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion'', which is home to Brown University's Sailing Team. The Pavilion is named after CNN's founder,

Ted Turner Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he fo ...

, an avid sailor, America's Cup defender in 1977 and a Brown Alumnus.

References

External links

Official Website
1889 establishments in Rhode Island Buildings and structures completed in 1908 Buildings and structures in Cranston, Rhode Island Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island Sailing in Rhode Island Shingle Style architecture in Rhode Island Yacht clubs in the United States {{ProvidenceCountyRI-NRHP-stub

Clubhouses

See also

References

External links