Each of the boathouses has its own history, and all have addresses on both Boathouse Row and Kelly Drive (named after famous Philadelphia oarsman John B. Kelly, Jr.).
•
In 1979, lights designed by architectural lighting designer Ray Grenald were installed to outline each of the boathouses, giving them a nightly Christmas-like gingerbread house appearance and reflecting in the Schuylkill River.
Skid Row | Saints Row | Skid Row (American band) | Savile Row | Death Row Records | Saints Row 2 | Kings Row | Saints Row: The Third | Paternoster Row | Forest Row | Colmore Row | Cannery Row | Westland Row | Front Row Motorsports | Embassy Row | Skid Row, Los Angeles | Sandy Row | Desolation Row | Cannery Row (novel) | Boathouse Row | Bent-over row | Weld Boathouse | Southampton Row | Saints Row IV | row | Poverty Row | Park Row Building | Michael Row the Boat Ashore | Harmony Row | Energetyk ROW Rybnik |
Philadelphia is a haven for rowers as the city offered access to world-class coaches, rowing equipment, and the Schuylkill River, which houses one of the largest regattas in the country and historic Boathouse Row.
The course was 3 miles long: beginning near Turtle Rock (Turtle Rock Light is the lighthouse at the northwest end of Boathouse Row), proceeding upriver under the Girard Avenue and Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridges to a stake near the Columbia Railroad Bridge, making a 180-degree turn around the stake, and then heading downriver back to the starting line.