Beach Club
Beach Club
Doubling as a neighborhood meeting hall, the Beach Club, designed by
noted architect Thomas Christ, is a two-story, barn-like structure
surrounded by deep front and back porches like they made them in the
old days. Tongue-and-groove cypress flooring, whitewashed cypress
walls and bead-board wainscoting enhance the beach cottage feeling
of the interior, as do the oversized, louvered, breeze-capturing
doors. Recalling a bath house at summer camp, the dressing areas are
equipped with showers and wooden lockers and benches. The community
kitchen makes this a perfect spot for receptions, celebrations and
get-togethers.
Most delightful of all is the pool, a new take in neighborhood
pools. More like a swimming hole, it is missing only a rope swing
slung from a tree. Where one would expect the usual rectangular pool
surrounded by vertical gates and rows of lounge chairs, here is a
virtual man-made lake, a free form pond amid the dunes with a
disappearing edge at the beachside entrance. The decking that curves
around the pool is a mixture of beach sand, bits of shell and white
concrete that looks like rippled sand by the ocean's edge.
Landscaped dunes dressed in beach sunflowers, Indian blanket, palms
and other beach natives surround the pool. Even the aluminum pool
fence refuses to act out of character, but is disguised as an aging
wood slat dune fence following the contours of the land.
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