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United States Department <strong>of</strong> the Interior<br />
<strong>National</strong> Park Service For NJ’S use only<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Register</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Places</strong> received -<br />
Inventory-Nomination Form - date e2lered -<br />
Continuation sheet 7 Item number 7 Page 8<br />
Bay Street cont. - -<br />
24 Commercial Block, formerly Columbia House ca 1890, rebuilt ca 1916:<br />
A 2-story, flat-ro<strong>of</strong> structure with plate-glass storefronts under<br />
a front veranda and a ro<strong>of</strong> parapet broken by a central gable con<br />
taining a lunette window. The building is now covered with asbestos<br />
shingles. This- was formerly the lower portion <strong>of</strong> the ColimmIli:I<br />
Ilouse HoteL, a large structure partly destroyed by Fire in 1916.<br />
The surviving lower floors were refurbished and adapted For com<br />
mercial use after the fire, -<br />
NC 25 Watch Hill Yacht Club 1939 A 2-story, gable-ro<strong>of</strong>, shingle and<br />
stucco building constructed on pilings in the harbor. The Yacht<br />
Club was founded in 1913. The present structure was erected to re<br />
place one that was - built in 1922 and destroyed in the hurricane <strong>of</strong><br />
1938.<br />
26 Ridley Watts Memorial, ‘‘The Dreamer’ 1940; Sylvia Shaw Judson<br />
sculptor A drinking fountain comprising a cast-bronze statue <strong>of</strong><br />
a small boy set in a circular granite basin on a cylindrical granite<br />
edesta1. The boy is represented in a sitting posture, with his<br />
head resting on an upraised knee and his other leg folded beneath<br />
him. The fountain was donated to the village by summer resident<br />
Mrs. Ridley Watts in memory <strong>of</strong> her husband, a prominent New York<br />
City dry-goods merchant.<br />
27 Ninigret Statue 1911, 1916; Enid Yandell, sculptor; Alexis Rudier,<br />
founder : A cast-bronze sculpture <strong>of</strong> the Indian Chief Ninigret,<br />
represented in a kneeling posture with a blackfish in each hand.<br />
Executed in Paris in 1911 by the American artist Enid Yandell, a<br />
one- time student in the studio <strong>of</strong> Auguste Rodin, the statue was re -<br />
portedly modeled after an Indian then appearing in Europe with Buffalo<br />
Bill’s Wild West Show. It was- donated to the village <strong>of</strong> Watch Hill<br />
in 1916 by Mrs. Clement A. Griscom in memory <strong>of</strong> her husband. The<br />
figure was once part <strong>of</strong> a fountain with water issuing from the fishes’<br />
mouths. It has been moved three times from its original locat ion at<br />
Westerly Road arid Ni nigret Avenue and is now mounted on a boulder set<br />
in a small waterfront park designed by landscape archi tect Marian C<strong>of</strong>fin.<br />
28 Commercial Block ca 1900: A long, 2-story, flat-ro<strong>of</strong>, clapboard<br />
structure with shop fronts under a front veranda and rooms on the<br />
second floor<br />
29 Commercial Building ca 1910: A 2-story, shed-ro<strong>of</strong> structure sheathed<br />
with vertical-groove siding on the facade and clapboards on the sides<br />
and rear. It has plate-glass shop fronts under a columned veranda<br />
See Continuation Sheet 118