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Tour Program Code Title Date Start Time CE Hours Description Accessibility Format ET101 Historic Boathouse Row 05/18/16 8:00 a.m. 2.00 LUs/GBCI Take an illuminating journey along Boathouse Row, a National Historic District, and tour the exteriors of 15 buildings dating from Bus and No 1861 to 1998. Get a firsthand view of a genuine labor of Preservation love. Plus, get an interior look at the University Barge Club Walking and the Undine Barge Club. Tour ET102 Good Practice: Research, Academic, and Clinical 05/18/16 9:00 a.m. 1.50 LUs/HSW/GBCI Find out how the innovative design of the 10-story Smilow Center for Translational Research drives collaboration and accelerates Bus and Yes SPaces Work Together advanced disease discoveries and treatment. Physically integrated within the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Center for Walking Advanced Medicine and Jordan Center for Medical Education, it's built to train the next generation of Physician-scientists. Tour ET103 Longwood Gardens’ Fountain Revitalization, 05/18/16 9:00 a.m. 3.00 LUs/HSW/GBCI Take an exclusive tour of three significant historic restoration and exPansion Projects with the renowned architects and Bus and No Meadow ExPansion, and East Conservatory designers resPonsible for them. Find out how each Professional incorPorated modern systems and technologies while Walking Plaza maintaining design excellence, social integrity, sustainability, land stewardshiP and Preservation, and, of course, old-world Tour charm. Please wear closed-toe shoes and long Pants. ET104 Sustainability Initiatives and Green Building at 05/18/16 10:30 a.m. -
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THE SPORT OF ROWING To the readers of www.row2k.com This spring the excerpts on The limited collector edition of my www.row2k.com have been concentrating on new book, The Sport of Rowing, from the early careers of two of recent American whence have come all these excerpts, sold rowing history’s most influential figures: out in April in about a week. Thanks so Harry Parker and Allen Rosenberg. This much to all of you who have showed such excerpt brings to a close the narrative of the faith in the book. 1960s and 1970s. It is a reminder that into The paperback standard edition re- every life a little rain must fall, and with mains on sale at: rowers involved, it can it can be a real gully- www.row2k.com/rowingmall/ washer. This edition has all the same content as The following .pdf is in the format in- the collector edition. The illustrations are in tended for the final printed book. The color black and white, and the price is much more you see will be duplicated in the limited col- affordable. lector edition. All these excerpts are from Both editions will be published in Octo- the third of the four volumes. ber. Incidentally, all the excerpts that have And remember, you can always email appeared on row2k during the last six me anytime at: months have since been revised as we work [email protected] toward publication. The most recent drafts are now posted in the row2k archives. Many thanks. THE SPORT OF ROWING 112. -
Treasurer's Update Sculling Clinic Offered By
March 2011 The Official Newsletter of Capital Rowing Club QUICK CATCH! Community Rowing in the Nation’s Capital Vol. 3, Issue 2 www.capitalrowing.org Treasurer’s Update “LiquiD CApitAL” iS not juSt thE name of A BoAt BY DEB piAnko, CRC treasurer (Competi- tive Women) Capital Rowing Club had many reasons to cheer in 2010. A shiny new boathouse with bathrooms and showers, a Vespoli 8+ hot off the presses for our club teams, a brand new juniors rowing program, fully packed novice sweep and sculling classes (with waiting lists), multiple gold medals at Masters nationals and World Champion- ships, and a fabulous coach for our com- petitive sculling program (finally!) are only a few amongst the many things that you – our Carlos Carrasco on the Anacostia River. photo by peter Courtney. club membership and supporters– made possible in 2010. The club accomplishes so much that it’s often easy to forget that it is driven almost entirely by volunteers. Capital’s volunteer-oriented culture is what Sculling Clinic Offered by CRC makes it possible to keep membership fees BY GRANT KrauS, program Rep, Sculling & Small Boats and program dues at an affordable level, while still providing club members with CRC is offering an intensive sculling clinic Friday May 20: top-notch facilities, equipment, coaching, the weekend of May 20-22 designed for 6:00 pm - Evening steady state row and the wide variety of community-focused advanced scullers who want to hone their with video taping: 75 mins programs which are truly unparalleled in skills and put them to work at races this season. -
Historic-Register-OPA-Addresses.Pdf
Philadelphia Historical Commission Philadelphia Register of Historic Places As of January 6, 2020 Address Desig Date 1 Desig Date 2 District District Date Historic Name Date 1 ACADEMY CIR 6/26/1956 US Naval Home 930 ADAMS AVE 8/9/2000 Greenwood Knights of Pythias Cemetery 1548 ADAMS AVE 6/14/2013 Leech House; Worrell/Winter House 1728 517 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 519 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 600-02 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 2013 601 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 603 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 604 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 605-11 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 606 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 608 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 610 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 612-14 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 613 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 615 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 616-18 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 617 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 619 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 629 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 631 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 1970 635 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 636 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 637 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 638 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 639 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 640 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 641 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 642 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 643 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 703 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 708 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 710 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 712 ADDISON ST Society Hill 3/10/1999 714 ADDISON ST Society Hill -
I ´Due´ John B. Kelly
La leggenda dei Kelly di Claudio Loreto z John Brendan Kelly, il “muratore” Lo statunitense John Brendan Kelly è stato il primo canottiere a collezionare tre medaglie d’oro olimpiche. Più che a tale primato, tuttavia, la sua fama – che andò decisamente al di là dell’ambito sportivo – è legata al mito americano del “self-made man”, da egli pienamente incarnato. Ultimo di dieci figli di emigrati irlandesi, John (detto anche Jack) nacque a Filadelfia il 4 ottobre 1889.1 Muratore, sviluppò una grande passione per lo sport; dopo qualche esperienza nel rugby, nella pallacanestro e nella pallanuoto, approdò al canottaggio, nel quale presto si affermò - per i colori del Vesper Boat Club di Filadelfia 2 - come il miglior “sculler” 3 degli Stati Uniti. La I Guerra Mondiale lo obbligò a sospendere la voga, arruolandolo nelle fila dell’esercito come soldato semplice. Durante la ferma in Francia Kelly prese parte - nella categoria “pesi massimi” - al torneo militare americano di pugilato, conseguendo dodici vittorie consecutive prima di essere bloccato da un infortunio. Il torneo sarebbe infine stato vinto da Gene Tunney, futuro campione del mondo professionista; in seguito Kelly avrebbe canzonato Tunney: “Non fosti fortunato, allorchè mi si ruppe una caviglia?”. Congedato al termine del conflitto con il grado di tenente, Kelly avviò a Filadelfia un’impresa edile che lo avrebbe poi reso miliardario; contemporaneamente riprese in mano i remi, ripristinando negli U.S.A. il proprio predominio nella specialità dello “skiff” 4. Nel 1920 avanzò richiesta di partecipazione alla “Diamond Sculls”, la prestigiosissima gara dei singolisti in seno alla “Henley Royal Regatta” (all’epoca la più importante manifestazione remiera annuale del mondo). -
National Register of Historio Places Inventory—Nomination Form
MP8 Form 10-900 OMeMo.10M.0018 (342) Cup. tt-31-04 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historio Places Inventory—Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Aeg/ster Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections______________ 1. Name historic Boat House Row and or common 2. Location street & number 1-15 East River Drive . not for publication city, town Philadelphia vicinity of state Pennsylvania code county Philadelphia code 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use __district JL public (land) _X_ occupied _ agriculture _ museum _JL building(s) JL private (buildings)__ unoccupied —— commercial —— park __ structure __ both __ work in progress —— educational __ private residence __ site Public Acquisition Accesaible __ entertainment __ religious __ object __ in process _X- yes: restricted __ government __ scientific __ being considered _.. yes: unrestricted __ industrial —— transportation __no __ military JL. other: Recreation Trowing, skating, 4. Owner of Property and social clubs') name See continuation sheet street & number city, town vicinity of state 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. City of Philadelphia, Office of Recorder of Deeds street & number City Hall_____ _____________________________• city, town Philadelphia state Pennsylvania 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Philadelphia Register title of Historic Places yes no date November 27, 1983 federal state county JL local depository for survey records Philadelphia Historical Commission, 1313 City HaH Annex city, town Philadelphia _____.____ state Pennsylvania 65* 7. Description Condition Check one Check one excellent X deteriorated .. unaltered X original site good ruins X_ altered .moved date ...... -
MIT CREW – Class of 1963 – 50Th Reunion
Class of 1963 – 50th Reunion MIT CREW – Class of 1963 – 50th Reunion Preamble/Prologue: Class of '63 at 2003 IRA and Reunion Row -2 -Jack Frailey Reflections on 50 + 4 Years of '63 MIT Crew -4 -Bill Gadzuk Making the Varsity -8 -Bob Kurtz On MIT Class of '63 Lightweight Crew -9 -Bob Vernon Nice Row MIT [excerpt] -11 -Jack Lynch You Can Go Home Again: MIT '63 Rows the 2003 IRA -15 -Elizabeth Wild IRA 2008 and Reunion Row-excerpts from Bulletin #9 of MITCAA -21 -Bob Vernon and Bill Gadzuk Jack Frailey "Birthday Memories Book" presented at IRA 2006 [excerpts] -27 -Tony Fiory, editor '63 Heavyweight Crew Composites -47 -Ken Andersen 1 Preamble/Prologue It has been my great pleasure to feel the warmth and camaraderie, even as a bystander, that filled the many emails that circulated earlier this year among 25 oarsmen who either rowed on the ’63 Varsity Heavyweight Crew Squad or were members of the Class of ’63. Two separate but related events were the focus of their attention. The first of these two groups were intent upon competing in the Masters Eight event at the 2003 IRA Regatta in Camden, NJ; the second had as their goal maximizing their class’s participation in MIT’s 2003 Reunion Row a week later. I had rarely experienced anything quite like it, and I rather early on conceived the idea for two projects that will, I hope, become worthy keepsakes for all who participated in them, while at the same time benefit the Friends of MIT Crew, of which I am a Director. -
An Artistic Milestone for a Sport and a City
TRACK INSIDE REDISCOVERED: An Artistic Milestone forxcitement a among Sport scholars and a City and connoisseurs is grow- ing over what may well be the frst American art- work depicting a rowing regatta. This is not just an attractive picture, but also emblematic of a tradition distinctive to the city of Philadelphia, where the country’s frst private clubs for rowing and rac- ing boats propelled by oars were established in the early 1830s. The site of this artwork’s rediscovery is Ethe Undine Barge Club, an amateur (though very dedicated) rowing club on the Schuylkill River headquartered in a magnifcent 1882 boathouse designed by the great local architect Frank Furness. Now one of a dozen such clubs lining Boathouse Row, the Undine was founded in 1856 for “healthful exercise, relaxation from business ... and pleasure.” The lead players in the rediscovery are the painter Joseph Sweeney (b. 1950), who is artist-in-residence at the club, and James H. Hill, a longtime Undinian. Sweeney has long encouraged its members to conserve some of the historic artworks hang- ing on the walls of their house; needless to say, its essential proximity to the river brings with it signifcant humidity issues. Firmly identifed artworks have been receiving expert conserva- tion treatment, but the particular picture under approached by Dr. Lily Milroy of the Philadelphia consideration here — an easel-sized gouache Museum of Art, who was writing a book about NICOLINO VICOMPTE CALYO (1799 –1884), First on paper — does not have a signature or label, the history of the Schuylkill River. She thought Schuylkill Regatta, c. -
Chapter 2 20Th Century
THE SPORT OF ROWING To the readers of www.row2k.com With this excerpt from The Sport of For our excerpts during the spring rac- Rowing, Two Centuries of Competition, we ing season, we are concentrating on the ca- return to www.row2k.com after a few weeks reers of two of recent American rowing his- off. tory’s most influential figures: Harry These have been very productive weeks Parker and Allen Rosenberg. These two for the book. We have recently announced have been bitter rivals since 1964, and there- that the publisher of our book is the River & in lies a tale. We begin with a short excerpt. Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames in England, and we have further announced The following .pdf is in the format in- that the limited collector edition will go on tended for the final printed book. The color sale to the public starting on Wednesday you see will be duplicated in the limited col- April 6, 2011, just two days from today, ex- lector edition. This excerpt is from the third clusively on the rowing mall of row2k.com. of the four volumes. There will be just 300 sets printed, and only 250 will ever be sold. Of those, nearly Incidentally, all the excerpts that have 200 have already been reserved, so I encour- appeared on row2k during the last six age anyone interested in purchasing one of months have since been revised as we work the remaining sets of the collector edition to steadily toward publication. The most re- visit the rowing mall early on April 6. -
Head of the Schuylkill Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, PA Oct 26, 2019 - Oct 27, 2019
Head of the Schuylkill Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, PA Oct 26, 2019 - Oct 27, 2019 Saturday 01B. Para Racing 1x Sat 8:00 Official Place Bow Name St. Joe's Tower Angels Raw +/- Adjusted 1 3 Andrew McLellan 03:39.3 09:13.8 15:28.0 20:01.2 20:01.2 (West Side Rowing Club) 2 2 Katherine Valdez 05:19.0 14:09.9 24:12.5 30:22.7 30:22.7 (Row New York) 01C. Adaptive/Inclusion 2x Sat 8:00 Revised Place Bow Name St. Joe's Tower Angels Raw +/- Adjusted 1 7 Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing PAR 03:33.9 09:04.8 15:09.8 19:02.6 Age: 38 -10.51 18:52.1 (Gallagher, H.) 2 5 Rockland Rowing Association, Inc. 03:51.3 09:42.8 16:13.4 20:24.9 Age: 59 -1:28.98 18:55.9 (Gold, R.) 3 9 Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing PAR 03:39.0 09:26.3 15:50.1 20:02.5 Age: 19 20:02.5 (Doughty, J.) 4 6 Row New York 03:54.9 09:59.5 16:57.7 21:16.8 Age: 21 21:16.8 (Choe, W.) 5 8 Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing PAR 04:35.6 11:51.7 19:34.3 24:19.3 Age: 67 -2:19.03 22:00.3 (Loudon, J.) 6 10 Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing PAR 04:51.9 12:35.0 21:11.7 26:45.3 Age: 15 26:45.3 (Chernets, W.) 02A. Mens Championship Pair w/out Cox Sat 8:30 Official Place Bow Name St. -
Control and Competition: the Architecture of Boathouse Row
Control and Competition: The Architecture of Boathouse Row WENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PHILADELPHIANS know Boathouse Row as the idiosyncratic collection of boathouses that dot the shoreline Tof the Schuylkill River (fig. 1). But the unique architectural character and definition of the row is no accident of history; rather, it is the result of one of the earliest attempts to exert municipal control over private structures, initiated in response to a confluence of cultural and his- toric trends sweeping through Philadelphia and parts of America in the late nineteenth century. This paper investigates how the architecture of Boathouse Row developed in three distinct phases: first, under city ordi- nances influenced by prominent individuals who oversaw the founding and growth of Fairmount Park; then, as an aesthetic competition developed between the boat clubs within the constraints determined by the city; and finally as municipal control over the design of the boathouses declined as the Fairmount Park Commission shifted its attention elsewhere and as prominent architects took the stage and a rise of architectural eclecticism led to a profusion of new styles. The boathouses are located in Fairmount Park, founded in 1855. Though the city had acquired the land in 1844, it did not begin to exert municipal control over the site with its first ordinances until 1860. With the establishment of the Fairmount Park Commission in 1867, figures such as Frederic Graff Jr., chief engineer of the Fairmount Waterworks, and Hermann Schwarzmann, a park engineer and later designer of the This paper began as an independent study project during my masters program in art history at Williams College. -
Rowing Along the River - the Boathouse Row Story
Rowing Along the River - The Boathouse Row Story Dotty Brown, a former reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, came to the SRHC in April to present the story and images from her new book: “Boathouse Row – Waves of Change in the Birth- place of American Rowing”. Rowing along the Schuylkill River began in the 1830’s when wealthy families from Philadelphia moved to what were then “suburbs”. They built homes and estates on land near the river that would later become part of Fairmount Park. They also moved to adjacent communities on the east and west banks of the river like Strawberry Mansion and the Belmont plateau. The famous Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins, lived on Mt. Vernon Street, just a few blocks away from the river, and he was an avid rower too. The Schuylkill was once a tidal river with rapids and falls, but a dam was constructed in 1821 to bring water from the waterworks to the city, and this instantly calmed the river in this area which made rowing feasible. Later in the 19th century Fairmount Park was established by the city and this area was dedicated to rowing. Many boathouses were constructed at that time since rowing had become such a popular sport and many boating clubs had been formed. Nicknames for the clubs were very common. For example, the Bachelors Barge Club, established in 1853, is the oldest existing one in the US. John B. Kelly, Grace Kelly’s father, became the “Cham- pion of America” since he won gold medals for rowing at both the 1920 and 1924 Olympics.