Crescent Boat Club
Rowing club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Crescent Boat Club is an American amateur rowing club at #5 Boathouse Row in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1867 by the merger of the Pickwick Barge Club and the Iona Barge Club, and was admitted to the Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia in 1868.
The club occupies the upriver half of a double boathouse shared with the Pennsylvania Barge Club, built between 1869 and 1871 and enlarged in 1890–1891 to designs by the Philadelphia architect Charles Balderston. A transom over the ground-floor opening carries the date-stone "1867 Crescent 1891", recording the founding and the Balderston enlargement. The building is a contributing property to the Boathouse Row historic district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 and designated a National Historic Landmark.
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