Ormond Yacht Club

The Ormond Yacht Club building is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. The organization was chartered on February 10, 1910 and its constitution stated, "The object of the club shall be to increase the sociability and general up-building of the town of Ormond and to promote boating in its broadest sense,"[2]

Ormond Yacht Club
Ormond Beach Yacht Club - West View - Camera Facing East
LocationOrmond Beach, Florida
Coordinates29°17′16″N 81°3′21″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1910
ArchitectSumner Hale Gove
Architectural styleFrame Vernacular
NRHP reference No.05000310[1]
Added to NRHPApril 19, 2005

It is located at 63 North Beach Street, and was built in 1910 on the Halifax River. The structure is supported by a foundation of concrete piers with wooden posts. A 147-foot walkway connects the structure to the river's western shore. It is a 2-story frame vernacular wooden structure with 1,734 square feet. Its hip roof has a medium pitch (almost pyramidal in appearance). A walkway and boathouse once extended from the clubhouse further into the Halifax River, but these structures were destroyed by a storm and never rebuilt.[1]

Design

The Ormond Yacht Club was designed by architect, Sumner Hale Gove in the Frame Vernacular style.[3]

National Register of Historic Places

On April 19, 2005, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Ormond Yacht Club - NRHP Plaque.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. The Ormond Yacht Club, The Daytona Daily News. February 10, 1910.
  3. Strickland, Alice, Ormond-On-The-Halifax, (Self-published, 1980).
  • NE View - Bridge in Background
  • NE View - Building Close Up View
  • SE View - Building Close Up View
  • East - Boardwalk View


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