The Boathouse
Bachelors Barge Club occupied several boathouse in succession before 1860, when it built a stone building. In 1884, architects Edward Harlehurst and Samuel Huckel, Jr. designed the Club's social up-river house in East Falls, the Bachelor's Button. The two architects had teamed up in 1881, and maintained a 20 year partnership that produced residential and ecclesiastical architecture including the Union Methodist Church and the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church.
In 1893, the Fairmount Park Commission allowed the Club to replace its 1860 building. In 1894, construction was finished on the mediterranean style boathouse at #6 Boathouse Row, which was also designed by the Harlehurst and Huckel team. Huckel became a member of Bachelors after designing its boathouse. Today, the building remains relatively unchanged.
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