Philadelphia Barge Club
University Barge Club of Philadelphia is an amateur rowing club located at #7 in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark. The Club's founding, in 1854, is considered the "dawn of organized athletics in the University of Pennsylvania." Known as "the upper-class rowing club," UBC is a founder, and the most senior member, of the oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States, the Schuylkill Navy.FoundingUniversity Barge Club was founded in 1854 by ten members of the University of Pennsylvania’s freshman class: They first rowed out of a Schuylkill boathouse near the Fairmount Waterworks known simply as "Charlie’s boathouse". The Club was officially formed when the founders purchased its first boat, the Hesperus, from Bachelors Barge Club. Club members wore sailor uniforms from clothier Jacob Reed that were monogrammed with “U.B.C.” on their hats and belts. In 1855, members of the Club, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Barge Club, built a one-story brick boathouse on rented land. The Club purchased a second boat, named Lucifer. After 1860, both boats were moved to a space rented from the Philadelphia Skating Club, which is now the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club.
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Philadelphia Barge Club is Philadelphia based place and this enity listed in Landmark category.
Landmark & Historical Place category, Philadelphia
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Sakura Pavilion, two of four intact buildings from the 1876 Centennial Exposition, is a newly-restored, year-round space for programming, classes, meetings, events, and exhibitions and part of Shofuso Japanese House and Garden.
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The Princeton Club in Philadelphia was located in two joined buildings, 1221 and 1223 Locust Street, from about 1910 through the 1970s. The building at 1223 was designed by Frank Furness, and 1221 is believed to have been designed by Lindley Johnson. Adaptations were made by the club in 1915 and 1919 to join the buildings together.The club was founded in Philadelphia in 1868 and was housed in five other buildings before moving to Locust Street. According to its 1912 Yearbook, the club served "to foster good fellowship among Princeton men; and also to provide a suitable place for Alumni meetings, smokers, etc."The restaurant Deux Cheminées occupied the buildings from 1988 to 2007. The property is currently occupied by the restaurant Vedge.See alsoNational Register of Historic Places listings in Center City, PhiladelphiaExternal links NRHP photo
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