The Boat House (Newport, Rhode Island)

 boathouse, place with historical importance, demolished

"The original boat house stood at the head of what is now called boat house galley, at the end of Bellevue Avenue. It was a wooden building and destroyed by a gale before the present century. It is of tradition that the land and ledge adjoining, on which the house stood, was given to the gunners and fishermen of Newport in perpetuity. It was followed by a stone structure which stood a little west of the site of the first wooden building. It was badly damaged, the sea breaking completely over it in the September gale of 1815, that memorable blow when the waters of the sea and harbor nearly met across the neck. It was rebuilt by gunners and fishermen and was for many years kept in repair by the sportsmen craft. It was taken down a few years since." [Bayles]

see also Coggeshall's Ledge - wikimapia.org/24693453/Coggeshall-s-Ledge