Detroit Boat Club

September 12 2015 | 10:00am to September 13 2015 | 11:55am

Tickets will be made available for Society members at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 15. Public registration begins June 29. 


The Detroit Boat Club Crew was founded in 1839, making them the oldest continually operating rowing club in North America at 175 years. Commemorate this historic Detroit organization with a tour of their home since 1902, the Detroit Boat Club! Since 1996, the non-profit Friends of Detroit Rowing has been modestly refurbishing it in order to maintain the stability of a structure so entrenched in the history of Detroit. After several earlier wooden boathouses had burned to the ground, the Club asked Alpheus W. Chittenden, an architect born in Detroit, to build a structure that could withstand fire. When the current boathouse was dedicated on August 4, 1902, it was the first reinforced concrete structure in the United States. 

Please call Rebecca Hope at 313.833.1801 for more information.

Ticket Prices
Description
Price
Detroit Historical Society Members
$20
Guests
$30