Edgewood Yacht Club

For over 130 Years Edgewood Yacht Club has been an Inviting Place for Families to Enjoy BoatingThe uppermost portion of Narragansett Bay is the location for Edgewood Yacht Club. First organized in 1885 by a group of families who erected bath houses on the waterfront, it was originally named Edgewood Boat Club. Its name was later changed to Edgewood Yacht Club when a club house was built in 1889. After fire destroyed the original structure, the club was rebuilt in 1908 as a large and magnificent shingle-sytle building sitting on 132 pilings over the water with a 2nd floor ballroom, water facing porches and a long dock that took members out to their slips.Over its lifetime, the club had withstood a number of hurricanes, in 1938 and the most serious in 1954. The ’54 hurricane was most severe, causing substantial damage to pilings, docks, marina slips and flooding the entire first floor of the club. A plaque on the wall of the Darby Room (the members meeting space) hung for many years, marking the height of the waterline reached during this damaging event.