Washington Canoe Club
- Style
- Shingle Style
- City
- Washington, DC
The Washington Canoe Club is a Shingle style boat clubhouse built on pilings over the Potomac River in Georgetown, established in 1904. It has trained a string of Olympic canoeists and kayakers, and the club was individually designated a DC Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
the building
Clubhouse on the river. The clubhouse was originally built on pilings directly over the Potomac. When the Army Corps of Engineers demolished the piers of the old Potomac Aqueduct Bridge in the 1960s, the bank beneath the club went stagnant and was filled with concrete, and the land to the north was later paved.
the style
The clubhouse is built in the Shingle style, the shingled, informally massed idiom common to American boathouses and seaside clubs of its era.
More on Shingle Stylesignificance
The club has produced national champions and Olympic medalists, including Frank Havens (silver 1948, gold 1952), Francine Fox and Glorianne Perrier (silver 1964), and Norman Bellingham (gold 1988). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1991.
nearby
- Georgetown Car Barn
- Lauinger Library
- Prospect House (Lingan-Templeman House)
- Georgetown University, Healy Hall
- Georgetown University, Old North
- Forrest-Marbury House