Clams bank is a characteristic mollusk appetizer fabricated with a cherrystone clam, breadcrumbs, and topped with bacon. A Rhode Island bowl which advance in acceptance beyond the country like wildfire, it is a comestible survivor of one of the Ocean State’s a lot of arresting and admired landmarks. Let’s revisit Narragansett Pier during a time if trains from New York and Boston transported array of flush tourists to this bank resort to adore the beaches, fishing piers, casinos, tennis courts, polo fields, chase tracks, restaurants, and hotels-namely The Casino.
The Bank was complete amid 1883 – 1886 for the Narragansett Bank Corporation afterward designs by Charles F. McKim, associated with the architectural close of McKim, Mead & White. This circuitous architecture consisted of an S-shaped rock and wood-shingle anatomy forth Ocean Rd. and Exchange St., and a abate anatomy abetment up to Mathewson St. The aboriginal roof shingles were laid in asperous bouncing rows to attending wind-battered. Purportedly McKim himself climbed the roof if it was accomplished and pried off some of the shingles to accomplish the architecture attending even added acclimate beaten.
The capital architecture of The Bank included stores, dining rooms, cafes, parlors, a billiard room, account room, and an accumulation allowance which served as a amphitheater and ballroom. The Mathewson St. anatomy independent a bowling alleyway and cutting gallery. Hence, The Bank became the centermost of amusing activity breadth the flush were accepted to arise and be noticed at lunch, dinner, and black bright events.
Alas, on September 12, 1900, a blaze started in the Rockingham Hotel, arctic of the Towers and swept the Exchange St. area, antibacterial The Bank and abrogation alone the rock Towers. Though the charcoal were repaired 1908 – 09, the Towers remained abandoned until 1924 if it reopened as a ballroom. The Great Depression of the 1930s alone The Towers already added until 1963 if a bite bar was opened on the arena attic of the east tower. The Towers austere afresh in 1965.