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Continuation sheet 7 Item number 7 Page 8
Bay Street cont. - -
24 Commercial Block, formerly Columbia House ca 1890, rebuilt ca 1916:
A 2-story, flat-roof structure with plate-glass storefronts under
a front veranda and a roof parapet broken by a central gable con
taining a lunette window. The building is now covered with asbestos
shingles. This- was formerly the lower portion of the ColimmIli:I
Ilouse HoteL, a large structure partly destroyed by Fire in 1916.
The surviving lower floors were refurbished and adapted For com
mercial use after the fire, -
NC 25 Watch Hill Yacht Club 1939 A 2-story, gable-roof, shingle and
stucco building constructed on pilings in the harbor. The Yacht
Club was founded in 1913. The present structure was erected to re
place one that was - built in 1922 and destroyed in the hurricane of
1938.
26 Ridley Watts Memorial, ‘‘The Dreamer’ 1940; Sylvia Shaw Judson
sculptor A drinking fountain comprising a cast-bronze statue of
a small boy set in a circular granite basin on a cylindrical granite
edesta1. The boy is represented in a sitting posture, with his
head resting on an upraised knee and his other leg folded beneath
him. The fountain was donated to the village by summer resident
Mrs. Ridley Watts in memory of her husband, a prominent New York
City dry-goods merchant.
27 Ninigret Statue 1911, 1916; Enid Yandell, sculptor; Alexis Rudier,
founder : A cast-bronze sculpture of the Indian Chief Ninigret,
represented in a kneeling posture with a blackfish in each hand.
Executed in Paris in 1911 by the American artist Enid Yandell, a
one- time student in the studio of Auguste Rodin, the statue was re -
portedly modeled after an Indian then appearing in Europe with Buffalo
Bill’s Wild West Show. It was- donated to the village of Watch Hill
in 1916 by Mrs. Clement A. Griscom in memory of her husband. The
figure was once part of a fountain with water issuing from the fishes’
mouths. It has been moved three times from its original locat ion at
Westerly Road arid Ni nigret Avenue and is now mounted on a boulder set
in a small waterfront park designed by landscape archi tect Marian Coffin.
28 Commercial Block ca 1900: A long, 2-story, flat-roof, clapboard
structure with shop fronts under a front veranda and rooms on the
second floor
29 Commercial Building ca 1910: A 2-story, shed-roof structure sheathed
with vertical-groove siding on the facade and clapboards on the sides
and rear. It has plate-glass shop fronts under a columned veranda
See Continuation Sheet 118