1800s, Edgartown Yacht Club. Samuel Osborn Jr. outfitted and unloaded his ship at this wharf. In the 1850s, a bilge pump shop, blacksmith, hardtack bakery and tombstone carver shared the waterfront with other shops selling staples and supplies to sailors. The ferry to Chappaquiddick, On Time III, leaves from here. The wharf's upper platform offers a nice view of the harbor.
Many homes nearby face the sea rather than the street.
1800s, Martha's Vineyard Art Association. This art gallery was originally the boat shop of Manuel Swartz Roberts in the early 1900s. Two of his boats are in the Smithsonian. Many of the houses along North and South Water Streets feature fluted columns, pilasters and entrances capped with pediments in the Greek Revival and Federal styles. Legend has it that many a captain's wife watched from here for her husband's return.