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Boathouse. A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. [1] These are typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
Designated NHL. February 27, 1987. Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housing social and rowing clubs and their racing shells.
Construction started. 1930s. Owner. Nattrass family. The Crawley Edge Boatshed, commonly referred to as the Blue Boat House, [1] is a boathouse located on the Swan River at Crawley in Perth, Western Australia. A well known landmark, [2] the boatshed was built in the 1930s, and since the 1940s has been owned mainly by the Nattrass family. [3][4]
In much of the Norse region, the longhouses were built around wooden frames on simple stone footings. Walls were constructed of planks, of logs, or of wattle and daub. The walls were curved inwards to create a boat-like shape similar to the boating houses. The walls were covered with clay and vertical poles lined the inside to help create support.
The Ramble and Lake are two geographic features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux 's 1857 Greensward Plan for Central Park, the features are located on the west side of the park between the 66th and 79th Street transverses. The 38-acre (150,000 m 2) Ramble, located on the north shore of ...
Added to NRHP. January 7, 1972 [1] Designated NYCL. October 14, 1965. The Prospect Park Boathouse is in the eastern part of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City. It is situated on the northeast shore of the Lullwater, a waterway north of Prospect Park's Lake and southeast of the Ravine.
The Inside Passage (French: Passage Intérieur) is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American Fjordland. The route extends from southeastern Alaska in the United States, through western British Columbia in Canada, to northwestern Washington ...
Longfellow Bridge. c. 1910. Located to the north of the Museum of Science parking garage at the mouth of the Lechmere Canal, this boathouse dates to the period of the first dam's construction. Charlesgate Yacht Club. 20 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge. Charlesgate Yacht Club. * Charles River Dam Bridge. Longfellow Bridge.