The Minnesota Boat Club Boathouse on Raspberry Island is the home of the Minnesota Boat Club, a rowing club founded in 1870. It is Minnesota's oldest athletic organization. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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“Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water
lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer
upon them; let a boat be kept there.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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