Edgewood Yacht Club is a historic yacht club in Cranston, Rhode Island at 3 Shaw Avenue.
7-465: The Edgewood Yacht Club was founded in 1889 and incorporated in 1902. 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 , and is especially notable for having survived the storm surge that accompanied
14-566: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Murphy, Hindle %26 Wright Ambrose J. Murphy (1869–1949) was an American architect whose practice was based in Providence Rhode Island. He was a specialist in ecclesiastical work and, in a career that spanned over 40 years, designed many buildings for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence Rhode Island and Fall River Massachusetts . Murphy
21-468: The 1938 Hurricane , as well as the one that occurred during Hurricane Carol in 1954. The clubhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places 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
28-456: The firm, now known as Murphy, Hindle & Wright , in 1907. The firm was dissolved in 1917 after which Murphy continued to work under his own name. In 1918 Murphy began working with Samuel M. Morino, who continued with him and eventually inherited the office after Murphy retired in 1942. Murphy died on May 27, 1949. Ambrose Murphy began his long and distinguished career at roughly the same time that Charles Maginnis of Boston, Massachusetts ,
35-533: Was born July 12, 1869, in Worcester, Massachusetts , where he likely was educated. He began his architectural career with his uncle James Murphy (1834–1907), an ecclesiastical architect in Providence, Rhode Island . After this he worked briefly as a draughtsman for Martin & Hall . In 1900 he entered into a partnership with Franklin R. Hindle to form the firm Murphy & Hindle. Benjamin W. Wright joined
42-604: 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 , an avid sailor, America's Cup defender in 1977 and a Brown Alumnus. This article about a Registered Historic Place in Providence County , Rhode Island
49-511: Was gone. No one was injured, and officers said they plan to rebuild. What was left of the building was razed, save for the pilings, which supported a wooden dock until the club was rebuilt. The slips and mooring field remained 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
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