Cascadilla School Boathouse is a historic

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. describing the facilities These are typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats ...

located in Stewart Park, a municipal park operated by the City of Ithaca in

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. The shingle style boathouse was built by the

Cascadilla School Cascadilla School is a co-ed preparatory school, in Ithaca, New York, established in 1876 as a tutoring and college preparatory school for Cornell University. History It was founded in 1876 as a boys' preparatory school for Cornell University. A ...

from 1894 to 1896 as a structure to store

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and lies on the south end of

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. Crew rowing was extremely popular in the late 1800s, with the first

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annual international event taking place in 1893. The boathouse has been in continuous use for rowing storage, training, lessons, and meetings by the Cascadilla Boat Club. It was listed on the

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in 1991. ''See also:'' Th
Cascadilla Boat Club
currently leases from the City of Ithaca the first floor of this historic structure for $46.17 per year in perpetuity. Continuing to use the boathouse for its original purpose, the club runs a competitive scholastic rowing program and youth and adult learn-to-row classes from April through October. Cascadilla Boat Club is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1977 with the mission of making the sport of rowing available to the entire Ithaca area community.

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