Fairmount Rowing Association
American rowing club
title: "Fairmount Rowing Association" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["rowing-clubs-in-philadelphia", "boathouse-row", "schuylkill-navy", "sports-clubs-and-teams-established-in-1877", "1877-establishments-in-pennsylvania", "philadelphia-register-of-historic-places", "boathouses-on-the-national-register-of-historic-places-in-pennsylvania", "historic-district-contributing-properties-in-pennsylvania"] description: "American rowing club" topic_path: "history/military" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_Rowing_Association" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary American rowing club ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox rowing club"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| location | #2 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| home_water | Schuylkill River |
| colors | Blue and White |
| affiliations | Episcopal Academy, Germantown Friends School |
| website | 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_abbr | PRHP |
| designated_other1_link | Philadelphia Register of Historic Places |
| designated_other1_color | #A8BDEC |
| location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| locmapin | Pennsylvania#USA |
| coordinates | |
| added | February 27, 1987 |
| partof_refnum | 87000821 |
| :: |
|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 = |location = #2 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |home_water = Schuylkill River |colors = Blue and White |affiliations = Episcopal Academy, Germantown Friends School |website= 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 | image = | caption = | location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA | coordinates = | area = | built = | added = February 27, 1987 | partof_refnum = 87000821 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. 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 | 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 |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
History of the boathouse
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/FairmountRA2010.jpg" caption="The two-story 1860 gothic structure at #3 on the left is now part of the 1904 three-story Georgian Revival structure on the right that replaced Pacific Barge Club's old #2."] ::
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 = 217 | url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog
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 = 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 = 208 | url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog | 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 = 210 | url = https://archive.org/details/bookamericanpas00pevegoog |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.
References
References
- {{NRISref. 2007a
- [http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-07-25 designating buildings 1-15 E. River Dr. (Boathouse Row) as Historic places. Search "Boat House Row" in the Resource Name box.)
- *[[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. link. (2012-10-25)
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