Edwin D. Morgan III

Summer residence, nicknamed the "Acropolis of Newport" completed around 1890 in Newport, Rhode Island for Morgan, and designed by architect Stanford White of Mckim Mead & White. With deep water at both sides of the peninsula in Bretons Cove, he kept his large yacht Constellation, along with the smaller racing yachts he owned while residing there.

Residence in Old Westbury, Long Island, NY, it was built over a 10-year period, and designed by architect firm McKim, Mead & White.

E.D. Morgan was rear commodore 1887–8, vice commodore 1891-2 and commodore 1923-4 of the New York Yacht Club. He was part of the winning team of the America's Cup Yacht Race in 1901 aboard the yacht Columbia. He had a close relationship with yacht designer Nathaniel Herreshoff, who designed many yachts for him. He also commissioned the construction of the largest steel hull schooner of the time, the Constellation, designed by Edward Burgess. Over his lifetime he owned over 17 vessels, ranging from steamers to schooners.

E.D. Morgan's Yachts
Name		Year Built	Builder	Specifications	Notes	Fate
Dudley					One of his first Sloops
Amy		1880	Cunliffe & Dunlop, Port Glasgow, Scotland	187.5 Feet long x 27 feet beam	Purchased in 1884
Whisper				72 feet long	Steam yacht
Constellation		1889	Piepgras Shipyard, City Island, NY	136 Feet long	*Built for Morgan Designed by Edward Burgess Sold in 1892	Scrapped 1941, Boston
Catarina		1880	Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, Scotland	186.4 ft Long x 26.1 ft beam	Purchased in 1889 the former British built yacht Sans Peur, renamed Catarina Wrecked and abandoned on Matinnicock Point, Long Island, later salvaged by Daniel W. Sullivan and rebuilt.	Foundered in a gale near Ras el Fasori, Syria in 1941
May		1891	Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon, Scotland	240 feet Long	Flagship of the New York Yacht Club Sold to J.R. DeLamar, then purchased by the U.S. Navy during WWI, renamed USS May (SP-164)	Wrecked on reef, abandoned 1923, Cape Engano, Santo Domingo
Ituna		1886	A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland	133 feet long	Used during Regattas when Morgan vice-commodore of the New York Yacht Club Sold, and eventually became a passenger ship, then fishing trawler where it sank en route from San Francisco to Reedsport Oregon in 1920.	Sank 1920, California Coast
Gloriana		1891	Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bristol, Rhode Island Coque/Hull #411	46 feet long	Designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff	Broken up at Lawley's in late 1910 after being damaged following a grounding
Javelin		1891	Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bristol, Rhode Island	98 feet long	Built W.R. Hearst, completed for Morgan Designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff	Morgan sold it to the Brazilian Navy, who renamed her Poty, and then was converted to a torpedo boat aboard the cruiser Nictheroy
Whisper (II)		1902		15 feet long	Designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff Spent most of her early years in western Long Island Sound Current Name: Echo	Still Active