in 2007 as a 9-room boutique hotel. He sold the business to Stamford developer and Shippan Point resident Thomas L. Rich in June 2008. Rich ran the hotel for two years but after being unable to secure a license to serve liquor at the property, Rich closed the hotel and sold it. In 2010 the building was sold as a single-family home. Organizations and businesses on Shippan Point Shippan Point is home to two yacht clubs, two restaurants, a marina, a private beach club, and a rock climbing gym. They are the Stamford Yacht Club; the Halloween Yacht Club; Brewer Yacht Haven East, a branch of the New England marina chain Brewer Yacht Yards and the Woodway Beach Club. The former Shippan Racquet club location is now home BETA rock-climbing gym. Community groups include the Shippan Point Association, the Shippan Gourmet Club (which sponsors dinners at members' homes six times a year) and the Shippan Point Garden Club. Our Lady Star of the Sea Church (Roman Catholic) is located on Shippan Avenue. The church was established August 21, 1964, and the current building opened January 15, 1989. It formerly included a parochial school but portions of the school are now leased by Stamford Recreation for its Star Center. Programming includes a summer camp, after-school activities, and classes for kids and adults. Shippan Point has two restaurants: Brennan's, on Iroquois Road, a bar and casual restaurant; and the Italian American Gourmet Deli at 203 Shippan Avenue. Other nearby restaurants include Cafe Silvium at 371 Shippan Avenue, an award-winning Italian Restaurant; and a larger Italian restaurant, Tomato Tomato, at 401 Shippan Avenue. "Shippan Shuffle" It is common for residents to move from one home to another in the neighborhood. The practice has been called the "Shippan Shuffle." "It's not unusual for people to have lived in more than one house here," a near-lifelong resident said. "In fact, there are probably 100 people here now who have done that." History Up to the American Revolution Stamford, once known as Rippowam, was sold by the native Indians to the English settlers. One such deed of July 1, 1640, acknowledges the sale of land to Nathanael Turner of Quenepiocke in exchange for one dozen each of coats, hoes, hatchets, glasses, knives, two kettles and four "fathom of white wampum." The deed bears the marks of Ponus Sagamore of Toquams, his son Owenoke Sagamore, as well