Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housing social and rowing clubs and their racing shells. Each of the boathouses has its own history, and all have addresses on both Boathouse Row and Kelly Drive, named after Philadelphia oarsman John B. Kelly Jr..
Boathouse Row on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia
Boathouses outlined with LED lights
Boathouse Row, c. 1904-1912
A panorama of #15 to #2 Boathouse Row taken from West Philadelphia in 2010
Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city. Fairmount Park consists of two park sections named East Park and West Park, divided by the Schuylkill River, with the two sections together totalling 2,052 acres (830 ha). Management of Fairmount Park and the entire citywide park system is overseen by Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, a city department created in 2010 from the merger of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation.
Belmont Plateau view toward Center City
Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter
East Fairmount Park, c. 1900
One of the Florentine Lions