Architectural style Shingle Style Area 2,000 m² Year built 1912 | NRHP Reference # 80000378 Phone +1 207-236-7033 Added to NRHP 11 January 1980 | |
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Location 68 Bay View St., Camden, Maine Address 68 Bay View St, Camden, ME 04843, USA Similar Rockport Boat Club, Rockland Yacht Club, The Lincolnville Boat Club, Bucks Harbor Yacht Club, Port Harbor Marine | ||
The Camden Yacht Club is a yacht club serving the boating community of Penobscot Bay. It is located at 68 Bay View Street in Camden, Maine. Founded in 1906, it offers a variety of programs seasonally (May through October), as well as mooring facilities (itinerant and seasonal) to its members and the general public. Its clubhouse, designed by John Calvin Stevens and built in 1912, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In season the club serves lunch to its members and their guests, and its facilities are available for event rental.
Facilities and history
The Camden Yacht Club is located south of downtown Camden, on the southern bank of the Megunticook River, at its mouth where it empties into outer Camden Harbor. It clubhouse is located near the shore, with a lawn area on two outer sides with water views, and parking areas between the building and Bay View Street. The clubhouse is a large Shingle style building, its tall hip roof overhanging the structure on three sides, creating porches on those sides. There is a port-cochere on the northwest side with Oriental trim features. The building was designed by John Calvin Stevens, the Portland architect known as a major proponent of the Shingle style, and was completed in 1912.
The club was founded in 1906 by George B. Phelps, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, and Chauncey Borland, among others. The clubhouse was built by Curtis, for the then-large sum of $60,000, and rented it to the club for a nominal fee. In 1926 he gave the property to the town, stipulating its continued use as a yacht club facility as part of the gift.