Belmar Fishing Club

This is stop #38 on the Belmar Treasure Trail, featuring the oceanfront Belmar Fishing Club. This historic fishing pier is one of the few ocean piers left in Monmouth County. The Belmar Fishing Club was first organized in 1909 with 49 members who paid dues of one dollar a year. Ten years later, in 1919, they arranged with the Ocean Pier Company to build a first clubhouse on the pier. But by 1929, the club had grown so much that the membership voted to build a new Club House here. This building, expanded again in the late 1900’s, is a prime example of mission architecture. Today, the Belmar Fishing Club is a modern, members-only haven for socializing and fishing. But it still contains a treasure trove of historical artifacts, including signed photographs from Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Warren Harding. And, built into the Club’s fireplace is a stone mantel from George Washington’s winter camp at Valley Forge.