Westmoor Club of Nantucket, MA: A Place to Call Home
Club Management: The Resource for Successful Club Operations
October, 2005
The story of today Westmoor Club properly begins when architect and life-long Nantucket
resident J. Graham Goldsmith paid a simple, yet fateful trip to the Egan property one day
in 2003. Goldsmith had been working on some residential projects in the area and had
remembered the property from its days as the Westmoor Inn. The Egan, who were
currently running Westmoor, werent looking to sell the property at the time, but he decided
to take his chances and knocked on the door nonetheless. A light bulb went off, and
two-and-a-half hours later Goldsmith had sketched out some plans and the road to success
took its toll from there.
The current state of the private club market in Nantucket included two very old-line,
private clubs; the Nantucket Yacht Club and Sankaty Head Gold Club. These clubs had
existed for three generations and had gotten to the point with their legacy memberships
that they simply didnt have the resources to take on new members. Interestingly, it was J.
Graham Goldsmith great-grandfather who teamed up with David Gray and a small group
of Natucketers to form the Sankaty Club back in 1921. Since Nantucket is very much a
second-home community, Goldsmith felt that it needed a new place for these people to
become connected and form friendships with other families while they enjoyed their stay
on the island year after year.
By Memorial Day of 2004, Westmoor was able to close on the land and quickly moved to
