West Chop Club Historic District
| West Chop Club Historic District | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| Historic District | |||
 The West Chop Inn in the district |
|||
|
|||
| location | Tisbury , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 28 '50 " N , 70 ° 36' 17.4" W | ||
| surface | 17 acres (6.9 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1889-1900 | ||
| architect | Hugh Tallant | ||
| Architectural style | Shingle Style , Tudor Revival , Colonial Revival | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 07001104 | ||
| Data | |||
| The NRHP added | October 18, 2007 | ||
| Declared as HD | October 18, 2007 | ||
The West Chop Club Historic District is an approximately 17 acres (6.9 hectare ) historic district in Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 and contains five buildings and four other structures as so-called contributing properties .
Description of the district
The area registered as a Historic District is located at the northernmost point of Martha's Vineyard on the West Chop Peninsula on the west side of Vineyard Haven Harbor . The district includes several structures along Iroquois Avenue and part of the approximately 2,000 ft (609.6 m ) long stretch of beach. The four main buildings of the district were built together with the pier between 1889 and 1900 by the West Chop Land Company. In 1911, the West Chop Trust acquired the land and buildings of what is now the historic district and still owns it to this day. The eponymous West Chop Club was founded by the West Chop Trust in the 1960s as a private club.
The peninsula is sparsely populated and densely overgrown with forest. The first permanent structure in this area was the West Chop Lighthouse , built in 1817 and also registered in the NRHP, on the east bank of West Chop, which is adjacent to the district, but outside its borders. To the southwest and also outside of the district is the Minks Meadow Golf Course.
Contributing Properties
The Cedars
The building The Cedars was about 1888 in the Shingle style built and has two and a half floors. It got its name from the tall white false cypress trees ( English cedar ) that stand next to other plants on the property. The roof of the house is mostly covered with white wooden shingles, while the gutters, rain pipes and their fixings are made of galvanized steel. The building was renovated after a fire in 1977 and again in the 1990s.
Cottage
The Cottage ( German country house ) stands about 150 ft (45.7 m) off Iroquois Avenue in the immediate eastern neighborhood of the Cedars and west of the casino. The building was originally erected in 1888 at a location near the pier in the Shingle style and moved to its present location in 1911. It has a rectangular floor plan and only has one floor. The building consists on the one hand of a square area with a slightly convex, pyramid-shaped hipped roof , on the other hand of a rectangular section with a gable roof , which was probably added later.
Casino
The casino, also built in the Shingle style around 1889 , has an L-shaped floor plan with a mansard roof and rises two floors. On the south side of the building there is a covered veranda, which was reconstructed in the 1990s, and on the front there are two dormer windows with a gable roof. The roof surfaces of the house are covered with modern asphalt shingles, while the outer walls are clad with shingles made from white cypress wood.
West Chop Inn
The building, at 162 Iroquois Avenue, is T-shaped and two stories high. It consists on the one hand of a rectangular block with a hipped roof oriented at right angles to the street, and on the other hand of a rectangular section with a gable roof parallel to the street. The house was originally built in 1892 and expanded and rebuilt in the following years. The roof surfaces are covered with asphalt shingles, the outer walls are clad with wooden shingles. A covered porch runs around a large part of the building.
West Chop Post Office
The building was built around 1900 in the Tudor Revival style with one and a half floors and has a gable roof that is covered with wooden shingles. The east side of the roof has a dormer with a gable roof. There is a veranda at the back of the building. The house hosts a village shop and in the summer months, the eponymous post office ( English post office ). The owner and operator is the West Chop Club.
Pier
Known as the Big Pier , the pier was built around 1888 and protrudes from Main Street and Waronco Avenue into Vineyard Sound . It rests on two rows with 16 wooden posts each and is also covered with wood. On the water side, it has a swimming platform and stairs to the water line. Today's pier is much shorter than when it was opened and was rebuilt several times due to severe storm damage.
Embankment
The stone-built dam marks the eastern end of the stretch of beach owned by the West Chop Club. It was first laid out in the first half of the 20th century and then re-attached and optically redesigned in the 1970s.
Tennis courts
Of the five tennis courts located within the boundaries of the historic district, only the two oldest were rated as contributing to historical importance. They were created around 1911 and are located west of the West Chop Inn between the casino and the post office.
Noncontributing Properties
Two staff buildings, the three remaining tennis courts from the 1970s south of the West Chop Inn, a flagpole, a playground and a few benches were classified as not contributing to the historical significance ( English noncontributing ). The houses for the service personnel were built in 1960 and 1990 and are located east of the West Chop Inn. The flagpole is at the intersection of Main Street and Iroquois Avenue. A plaque commemorates Philip Leverett Saltonstall, who was one of the first three agents of the West Chop Club.
See also
literature
- Adams, Virginia; Rayburn, Mark; Friedberg, Betsy: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. ( PDF ) National Park Service , August 2007, accessed on September 2, 2015 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved April 15, 2008.
- ↑ a b cf. Adams et al., P. 5.
- ↑ cf. Adams et al., P. 6.
- ↑ cf. Adams et al., P. 7.
- ↑ cf. Adams et al., P. 8.
- ↑ cf. Adams et al., P. 9.
- ↑ cf. Adams et al., P. 10.
- ↑ a b c cf. Adams et al., P. 11.
- ↑ a b cf. Adams et al., P. 12.