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The Charles River in Massachusetts has a significant number of boathouses on its banks, from its mouth at Boston Harbor to its source at Echo Lake in Hopkinton.. The boathouses are mostly situated along the Boston and Cambridge banks of the Charles River Basin, upstream as far as the Arsenal Street Bridge, and downstream as far as the Charles River Dam.
The Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District comprises a row of 143 boathouses on Lake Vermilion in Breitung Township, Minnesota, United States. They were mostly built in the first half of the 20th century by employees of the adjacent Soudan Iron Mine. The mining company provided the lots to employees as a reward for their years of service, and ...
The Brightwells Mill Complex historic 19th-century mill complex at 684 Brightwells Mill Road in Madison Heights, Amherst County, Virginia. It includes a reconstructed 1826 wood-frame mill, dam, miller's house, a number of outbuildings, and a small cemetery. The dam and mill both date to 1942, when a flash flood destroyed 19th-century structures.
Brightwells was a department store in Southend-on-Sea, England. The store was founded by John Rumbelow Brightwell and opened on the city's High Street in the 19th century as a drapery . [ 1 ] This became a department store which was incorporated in 1909 as J.R. Brightwell Ltd. [ 2 ] Its direct competitors were Keddies , J F Dixons and Thomas ...
A boathouse may be the headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells, in which case it may be known as a shell house. [2] Boat houses may also include a restaurant, bar, [3] or other leisure facilities, [1] perhaps for members of an associated club. They are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for ...
In the fifteenth century Brightwell Manor was possessed by William Curzon. [3] His son, Sir Robert Curson, Knt., created a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Maximilian for his gallantry against the Turks, was a Yorkist conspirator and declared a traitor in 1501, although was later back in favour at the English Court.
Newell Boathouse, named for a popular Harvard athlete killed just a few years after graduation, is the primary boathouse used by Harvard University's varsity men's rowing teams. [1] It stands on land subject to an unusual peppercorn lease agreement between Harvard and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
Dixons in 1969. J. F. Dixon, a draper from Upper Norwood, South London opened his own drapery store in 1913. [3] The store was prominently located on the corner of London Road, Southend-on-Sea on what was then called The Broadway, now known as the High Street with its main competitors being Keddies, Brightwells and Thomas Brothers. [4]