Malta Boat Club

Malta Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #9 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1865, the Club joined the Schuylkill Navy when it relocated to the Schuylkill River from the Delaware River and purchased the facilities of the now defunct Excelsior Club.^[2][3] While on the Delaware, the club occupied a house on Smith’s Island where the club stored its boat called the "Minnehaha".^[4] The club was founded by members of the Minnehaha Lodge of the Sons of Malta.^[4] The Sons of Malta, originally organized in the South, did not survive the Civil War.^[5][6]

Malta Boat Club

Location	#9 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Home water	Schuylkill River
Established	1860
Navy admission	1865
Key people	Phil Marcella (President) Jeff Cutler (Captain) Chuck Patterson (Navy delegate)
Colors	Royal Blue   and White
Website	maltaboatclub.com
Malta Boat Club
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
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Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39.96962°N 75.18534°W / 39.96962; -75.18534
Part of	Boathouse Row (ID87000821[1])
Added to NRHP	February 27, 1987

As four members of the US National Team row out of Malta, the club was well represented at the 2009 World Championships.^[7]

The Boathouse

In 1873, Malta, in conjunction with Vesper Boat Club, built a 1+1⁄2-story boat house.^[8] In 1880, the boat house was expanded.^[8]

In 1901, brothers George W. and William D. Hewitt designed more substantial additions including a third story to make Malta the tallest boathouse on Boathouse Row.^[8] The Hewitt brothers had been Frank Furness's partner until 1876, and they designed the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the Bourse Building, and the Wissahickon Inn.^[9]

US National Team Athletes

1970s

• Stan Depman^[10]
• Fred H. Duling^[11]
• Rick Stehlik^[12]

1980s

1990s

• Fred S. Duling^[13][14]
• Tom Loughlin^[14][15]
• Marc Millard^[16]

2000s

• Sam Cunningham^[17][18]
• Shane Madden^[19][20]
• Marc Millard^[16]
• Rich Montgomery^[21]

2010s

• Sam Cunningham^[17][18]
• Bob Duff^[22][23]
• Colin Ethridge^[24][25]
• Christopher Lambert^[26][27]
• Shane Madden^[19][20]
• Tyler Nase^[28][29]
• David Smith^[30][31]

Photo gallery

• 
  Malta Boat Club, #9 Boathouse Row in 1972.
• 
  Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs, #9-10 in 2010.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. Peverelly, Charles A. (1866). "Malta Boat Club". The Book of American Pastimes. New York: Author. p. 213.
3. Janssen, Frederick W. (August 15, 1888). "Malta Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829–1888. New York. pp. 211–12.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. "A Philadelphia Rowing Tradition". Malta Boat Club. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
5. Stevens, Albert C. (1907). "Sons of Malta". The Cyclopædia of Fraternities. New York: E.B. Treat and Company. p. 284.
6. N., I. P. (July 2, 1894). "The Shrine Examined". The American Tyler. Vol. 8, no. 23. Detroit. p. 539.
7. "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program" (PDF). Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. Retrieved April 30, 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. November 27, 1983. p. 663. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
9. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. November 27, 1983. p. 673. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
10. "FISA, Stan Depman". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
11. "FISA, Fred H. Duling". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
12. "Row2k, Rick Stehlik". Row2k. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
13. "FISA, Fred S. Duling". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
14. "Philadelphia Inquirer". www.philly.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
15. "FISA, Tom Loughlin". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
16. "FISA, Marc Millard". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
17. "USRowing, Sam Cunningham". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
18. "FISA, Sam Cunningham". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
19. "USRowing, Shane Madden". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
20. "FISA, Shane Madden". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
21. "FISA, Richard Montgomery". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
22. "USRowing, Bob Duff". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
23. "FISA, Bob Duff". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
24. "USRowing, Colin Ethridge". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
25. "FISA, Colin Ethridge". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
26. "USRowing, Christopher Lambert". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
27. "FISA, Christopher Lambert". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
28. "FISA, Tyler Nase". Retrieved May 15, 2015.
29. "USRowing, Tyler Nase". US Rowing. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
30. "USRowing, David Smith". www.usrowing.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
31. "FISA, David Smith". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.

Further reading

• "Boathouse Row". Living Places. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
• Burt, Nathaniel (1999). "The Schuylkill Navy". The Perennial Philadelphians: the anatomy of an American aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-8122-1693-6.
• Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 71.
• Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. p. 59.
• Keyser, K. C. (1872). "Malta Boat Club". Fairmount Park: Sketches of its Scenery, Waters, and History (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger. p. 136.
• Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884. Vol. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871.
• Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). pp. 103–04. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
• Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 2 - Beginning of the Clubs". Schuylkill Navy. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2010.

External links

• "Malta Boat Club". Facebook. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
• Malta Boat Club on wikimapia.org