Malta Boat Club is an amateur
rowing club located at #9 Boathouse Row in the historic
Boathouse Row of
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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. In 1865, the Club joined the
Schuylkill Navy when it relocated to the
Schuylkill River from the
Delaware River
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and purchased the facilities of the now defunct Excelsior Club. While on the Delaware, the club occupied a house o
Smith’s Islandwhere the club stored its boat called the "
Minnehaha".
The club was founded by members of the Minnehaha Lodge of the Sons of Malta.
[ The Sons of Malta, originally organized in the South, did not survive the ]Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
.
As four members of the US National Team row out of Malta, the club was well represented at the 2009 World Championships.
The Boathouse
In 1873, Malta, in conjunction with Vesper Boat Club, built a -story boat house.[ The Hewitt brothers had been ]Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 - June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often unordinarily scaled b ...
's partner until 1876, and they designed the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the Bourse Building, and the Wissahickon Inn.
US National Team Athletes
1970s
*Stan Depman
*Fred H. Duling
*Rick Stehlik
1980s
1990s
*Fred S. Duling
Photo gallery
File:Malta72.png, Malta Boat Club, #9 Boathouse Row in 1972.
File:Vesper-Malta2010.jpg, Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs, #9-10 in 2010.
References
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External links
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Malta Boat Club
on wikimapia.org
{{Schuylkill Navy
Rowing clubs in Philadelphia
National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Philadelphia
Cultural infrastructure completed in 1873
Victorian architecture in Pennsylvania
Boathouse Row
Schuylkill Navy
Sports clubs established in 1860
1860 establishments in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Boathouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania