Malta Boat Club is an amateur
rowing
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club located at #9 Boathouse Row in the historic
Boathouse Row
Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housi ...
of
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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. In 1865, the Club joined the
Schuylkill Navy
The Schuylkill Navy is an association of amateur rowing (sport), rowing clubs of Philadelphia. Founded in 1858, it is the oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States. The member clubs are all on the Schuylkill River where it flows ...
when it relocated to the
Schuylkill River
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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
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".
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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.
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
The Vesper Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #10 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, the club's name was changed to Vesper Boat Club in 1870.
...
, built a -story boat house.Boathouse Row
Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housi ...
.[ 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 inordinately scaled ...
's partner until 1876, and they designed the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel is a landmark building at 200 S. Broad Street (Philadelphia), Broad Street at the corner of Walnut Street (Philadelphia), Walnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Construct ...
, 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
Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housi ...
in 1972.
File:Vesper-Malta2010.jpg, Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs, #9-10 in 2010.
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Malta Boat Club
on wikimapia.org
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