Property Record
2300 E NOCK ST - SOUTH SHORE PARK - LAKE MICHIGAN PARKWAY SOUTH
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | South Shore Yacht Club |
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| Other Name: | South Shore Yacht Club |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 209102 |
| Location (Address): | 2300 E NOCK ST - SOUTH SHORE PARK - LAKE MICHIGAN PARKWAY SOUTH |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1930 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | social recreational/fraternal hall |
| Architectural Style: | Other Vernacular |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Composition Board |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2011- The South Shore Yacht Club was established in 1918 and a clubhouse was constructed in the 1930s. However this structure was only one story and had an open porch on the rear. The current building is two stories, clad in composite board, and has a large second story addition to the north. Windows are one-over-one double-hung and fixed replacement windows. An exterior brick chimney is on the north elevation. A front gable portico is over the main entry door on the south elevation. The yacht club complex includes a concession stand, boathouse, storage lockers, and a dock operator's house. The yacht club is located in South Shore Park, which is part of the Lake Michigan South Parkway. "It is impossible to estimate in dollars and cents the recreational value of Lake Michigan to those who live along its shoes. There has been a yacht club in Bay View since about 1910, when the Illinois Steel Mills Yacht Club was formed. Soon after, a second club was organized for men who were not mill employees. Their first clubhouse was an old schooner, the Lily E., which was destroyed by fire a hew years later. In time the two clubs merged, sharing the older group's clubhouse on South Shore Drive for several years. South Shore Yacht Club's next clubhouse was the deckhouse of a barge; this was destroyed by storm in 1929. The present, more conventional clubhouse has been remodeled and enlarged as increasing numbers of Milwaukeeans have discovered the joys of a white sail in an offshore breeze. South Shore Park was founded in 1922 on land that had been the farm of Bay View pioneer Elijah Stone Estes." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |