Malta Boat Club
| Malta Boat Club | |
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| Location | #9 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Home water | Schuylkill River |
| Established | 1860 |
| Navy admission | 1865 |
| President | Mike Brown |
| Vice President | Fred Duling |
| Secretary | Kip Wetzel |
| Treasurer | Matt Arria |
| Captain | Phil Marcella |
| Lieutenants | Sam Cunningham, John Hayburn |
| Colors | Royal Blue and White |
| Website | maltaboatclub.com |
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Malta Boat Club | |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Governing body | Local |
| Part of | Boat House Row (#87000821[1]) |
| Added to NRHP | February 27, 1987 |
Malta Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #9 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1865, the Club joined the Schuylkill Navy when it relocated to the Schuylkill River from the Delaware River and purchased the facilities of the now defunct Excelsior Club.[2][3] While on the Delaware, the club occupied a house on Smith’s Island where the club stored its boat called the “Minnehaha”.[4] The Club was founded by members of the Minnehaha Lodge of the Sons of Malta.[4] The Sons of Malta, originally organized in the South, did not survive the Civil War.[5][6]
As four members of the US National Team row out of Malta, the Club was well represented at the 2009 World Championships.[7]
The Boathouse
In 1873, Malta, in conjunction with Vesper Boat Club, built a 1 1⁄2-story boat house.[8] In 1880, the boat house was expanded.[8]
In 1901, brothers George W. and William D. Hewitt designed more substantial additions including a third story to make Malta the tallest boathouse on Boathouse Row.[8] The Hewitt brothers had been Frank Furness’s partner until 1876, and they designed the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the Bourse Building, and the Wissahickon Inn.[9]
Prominent members
- Shane Madden - 2009 US National Team member (Lightweight Men's Double Sculls)[10]
- Sam Cunningham - 2009 US National Team member (Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls)[10]
- Rich Montgomery - 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls)[11]
Photo gallery
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Malta Boat Club, #9 Boathouse Row in 1972.
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Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs, #9-10 in 2010.
See also
- Mark Gerban - former Malta member competing for Palestine in Lightweight Men’s Single[12]
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
- ↑ Peverelly, Charles A. (1866). "Malta Boat Club". The Book of American Pastimes. New York. p. 213.
- ↑ Janssen, Frederick W. (15 August 1888). "Malta Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829–1888. New York. pp. 211–12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A Philadelphia Rowing Tradition". Malta Boat Club. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ↑ Stevens, Albert C. (1907). "Sons of Malta". The Cyclopædia of Fraternities. New York: E.B. Treat and Company. p. 284.
- ↑ N., I. P. (2 July 1894). "The Shrine Examined". The American Tyler 8 (23) (Detroit: The American Tyler). p. 539.
- ↑ "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program". Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "National Registry of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. p. 663. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ↑ "National Registry of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. p. 673. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "USRowing Announces 2009 World Championships Roster". United States Olympic Committee. 10 August 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ↑ "USRowing Announces 2007 World Championships Roster". USRowing. 6 August 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ↑ Iradj El-Qalqili (5 November 2005). "Wharton crew and the Gaza Strip". Wharton Journal. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
Further reading
- "Boathouse Row". Living Places. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- Burt, Nathaniel (1999). "The Schuylkill Navy". The Perennial Philadelphians: the anatomy of an American aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-8122-1693-6.
- Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 71.
- Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. p. 59.
- Keyser, K. C. (1872). "Malta Boat Club". Fairmount Park: Sketches of its Scenery, Waters, and History (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger. p. 136.
- Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871.
- Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). pp. 103–04. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 2 - Beginning of the Clubs". Schuylkill Navy. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
External links
- "Malta Boat Club". Facebook. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- Malta Boat Club on wikimapia.org
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