Fairmount Rowing Association

{{Infobox rowing club

|name = Fairmount Rowing Association

|image_name = fairmount.gif

|image_size = frameless

|blade_image = FairmountRA.png

|established = 1877

|admission_label = Navy admission

|admission = 1916

|key_people = {{Unbulleted list|John Krajewski (President)|Pat Rufo (Coach)}}

|location = #2 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

|home_water = Schuylkill River

|colors = Blue {{color box|blue}} and White {{color box|white}}

|affiliations = La Salle University, Episcopal Academy

|website= [http://www.fairmountrowing.com fairmountrowing.com]

|nrhp={{Infobox NRHP

| name = Fairmount Rowing Association

| embed = yes

| partof = Boathouse Row

| nrhp_type = cp

| designated_other1_name = Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_date =

| designated_other1_abbr = PRHP

| designated_other1_link = Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_color = #A8BDEC

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| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA

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| added = February 27, 1987

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Fairmount Rowing Association is an amateur rowing club, founded in 1877. The facility, located at #2 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is on the National Register of Historic Places.[http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725123211/http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/ |date=2008-07-25 }} designating buildings 1-15 E. River Dr. (Boathouse Row) as Historic places. Search "Boat House Row" in the Resource Name box. Fairmount originally catered to blue-collar youths living in the Fairmount neighborhood.{{Cite web

|last=Silverberg

|first=Lee

|title=A Very Brief History of the Fairmount Rowing Association

|publisher=Fairmount Rowing Association

|date=19 May 2008

|url=http://www.fairmountrowing.org/history.htm

|access-date=1 May 2010

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213553/http://www.fairmountrowing.org/history.htm

|archive-date=4 October 2013

}} In 1916, after decades of being rejected, the club was finally allowed to join the Schuylkill Navy. The Club boasts being known as the "premiere club for Masters rowing in the mid-Atlantic region" and has produced several world class rowers.Teresa Z. Bell won an Olympic medal in the Lightweight Women’s Double. See {{Cite news

| last = Walker

| first = Teresa M.

| title = U.S. Rowing Women Fall Short Of Gold

| newspaper = Washington Post

|date=28 July 1996

| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/olympics/daily/rowing/july/28/row28.htm

| access-date = 1 May 2010}} Bell was rowing out of Fairmount. See {{Cite news

| title = Schuylkill Navy Honors Philadelphia's National Teamers

| newspaper = Rowing News

| volume = 3

| number = 22

|date=15–29 December 1996

| page = 3

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YUcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP3

| access-date = 1 May 2010}}James Castellan competed in the 1976 olympics. See {{Cite web

|last=Hood

|first=Clifton R.

|title=Penn in the Olympics: Penn Athletes Competing in the Olympic Games

|publisher=University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania

|date=June 2006

|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/olympics/athletes.html

|access-date=1 May 2010

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211121822/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/olympics/athletes.html

|archive-date=11 December 2010

|url-status=dead

}} Castellan is a Fairmount rower. See {{Cite web

|last=Silverberg

|first=Lee

|title=A Very Brief History of the Fairmount Rowing Association

|publisher=Fairmount Rowing Association

|date=19 May 2008

|url=http://www.fairmountrowing.org/history.htm

|access-date=1 May 2010

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213553/http://www.fairmountrowing.org/history.htm

|archive-date=4 October 2013

}}*Stan Cwiklinski, 1964 US Olympic gold medalist in the Men's Eight, rowed with Fairmount until joining Vesper Boat Club in 1963. See [https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cw/stan-cwiklinski-1.html Stan Cwiklinski sports-reference.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025161905/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cw/stan-cwiklinski-1.html |date=2012-10-25 }}

History of the boathouse

File:FairmountRA2010.jpg

The structure currently known as #2 Boathouse Row is a result of a 1945 expansion project that eliminated #3 Boathouse Row by merging it into Fairmount Rowing Association's building at #2 Boathouse Row.

=Pacific Barge Club=

Pacific Barge Club was founded in 1859, but was not a member of the Schuylkill Navy.{{Cite book

| last = Peverelly

| first = Charles A.

| title = The Book of American Pastimes

| publisher = Author

| chapter = Pacific Barge Club

| year = 1866

| location = New York

| page = [https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog/page/n236 217]

| url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog

}} In 1860, Pacific Barge Club built a stone cottage-style boathouse at the site of #2 Boathouse row. Half of the building was occupied by the Pacific Barge Club while the other half was rented to the Philadelphia Boat Club. In 1881, the Fairmount Rowing Association purchased #2 Boathouse Row and Pacific Barge Club's equipment.

In 1904, Fairmount Rowing demolished the stone building built by Pacific Barge Club. Walter Smedley, a founder of the T-Square Club, designed the Georgian Revival style Flemish bond brick structure that replaced the 1860 stone boathouse and now occupies the southern half of the Fairmount Rowing's boathouse. Smedley, specialized in colonial revival residences, and also designed the Northern National Bank and the West Philadelphia Title and Trust Company.{{Cite web

|last = Moak

|first = Jefferson

|title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form

|publisher = NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior

|page = 674

|date = 27 November 1983

|url = https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/7f7cc593-7360-4a66-98b9-0ae7c8e17693

|access-date = 7 May 2010

|url-status = live

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211914/http://image1.nps.gov:9001/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=NHLS&item=Text%2F87000821.djvu&style=nps%2FFOCUS-DJview.xsl&wid=640&hei=480&oif=jpeg&props=item%28SUMMARY%2CCOPYRIGHT%29%2Ccat%28Name%29&page=23

|archive-date = 29 October 2013

}}

=Camilla Boat Club and Quaker City Barge Club=

Camilla Boat Club was a founding member of the Schuylkill Navy.{{Cite book

| last = Crowther

| first = Samuel

|author2=Arthur Brown Ruhl

| title = Rowing and Track Athletics

| chapter = The Beginnings of Rowing

| publisher = MacMillan

| year = 1905

| location = New York

| page = [https://archive.org/details/rowingandtracka01ruhlgoog/page/n42 24]

| url = https://archive.org/details/rowingandtracka01ruhlgoog}} Camilla was a champion of the Schuylkill, but the Club disband as a result of disagreements between members.{{Cite book

| last = Peverelly

| first = Charles A.

| title = The Book of American Pastimes

| publisher = Author

| chapter = Quaker City Barge Club

| year = 1866

| location = New York

| page = [https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog/page/n227 208]

| url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog

}} In 1858, the remnants of the defunct Camilla Boat Club reorganized to form Quaker City Barge Club.{{Cite book

| last = Kelley

| first = Robert F.

| title = American rowing; Its Background and Traditions

| publisher = G. P. Putnam's sons

| year = 1932

| page = 59

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4v2BAAAAMAAJ&q=camilla

}}

By 1866, Quaker City Barge Club had purchased #3 Boathouse Row from the Pacific Barge Club.{{Cite book

| last = Peverelly

| first = Charles A.

| title = The Book of American Pastimes

| publisher = Author

| chapter = Quaker City Barge Club

| year = 1866

| location = New York

| page = [https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog/page/n229 210]

| url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog

}} Among various rowing accomplishment, Quaker City raced the first four oared boat with coxswain.{{cite book

|title = The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937

|first = Louis

|last = Heiland

|year = 1938

|publisher = The Drake Press, Inc

|location = Philadelphia

|page = 60

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vRdrOgAACAAJ}} The Quaker City Barge Club began to decline in the 1880s and never raced in the Schuylkill Navy Regatta after 1926. In 1932, the Quaker City Barge Club declared itself “inactive” in the Schuylkill Navy and became completely defunct in the 1940s. In 1945, under the leadership of John Carlin, Fairmount Rowing Association bought Quaker City Barge Club's equipment and absorbed its boathouse, which now serves as the northern half of Fairmount Rowing's boathouse.

File:Fairmount72.png|Fairmount Rowing Association,
#2 Boathouse Row.