{"nrhp_refnum":"07001104","name":"West Chop Club Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Iroquois Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tisbury","county":"Dukes County","state":"MA","lat":41.48038600000004,"lon":-70.60736982448282,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 17-acre district of late 19th-century resort buildings and recreational facilities on Iroquois Avenue at the northern tip of West Chop, Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Its core buildings and pier were built between 1889 and 1900 by the West Chop Land Company.","why_significant":"The district preserves the clubhouse, hotel, casino and recreational core of West Chop, a planned Shingle Style summer community developed from 1889. The buildings share materials and design, reflecting the developer's rules for a harmonious, uniform appearance. They also show how the community was organized around shared dining, social and recreational life.","narrative":"West Chop Club Historic District occupies about 17 acres at the northern tip of West Chop, a peninsula in Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard. It centers on Iroquois Avenue and includes part of a 2,000-foot beachfront along Vineyard Sound. Five contributing buildings and four contributing structures, including a historic pier, a jetty and two tennis courts, survive from the community laid out by the West Chop Land Company. The Cedars, a hotel and clubhouse, and The Casino, with its bowling alley, billiard room and upstairs dance hall, date to 1889. The West Chop Inn followed in 1892. Built in the Shingle Style with white cedar shingle walls, they were designed to look harmonious, and the company reviewed designs and set building restrictions on lots. Early summer residents came largely from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The West Chop Trust bought the main buildings in 1911, and a private club has operated the grounds since the 1960s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"West Chop Land Company (developer/builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Shingle style; Late 19th-Early 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use: historic functions of hotel, restaurant, clubhouse, seasonal post office and outdoor recreation continue today; the club is a private membership club.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.624822-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7945/63794596/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/07001104.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001104/50f9c317e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001104/50f9c317e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Chop_Club,_Vineyard_Haven_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Chop_Club,_Vineyard_Haven_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794596","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Chop_Club_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7984739"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/dukes-county/west-chop-club-historic-district-07001104/"}