“Newell Boathouse”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Newell Boathouse, named for a popular Harvard athlete killed just a few years after graduation, is the primary boathouse used by Harvard University's varsity men's rowing teams.{{r|st}}

It stands on land subject to an unusual{{r|cbs}} peppercorn lease agreement^[1] between Harvard and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

History

Newell Boathouse is named for 1894 Harvard College graduate Marshall Newell, a varsity rower and All-American football player in all four of his undergraduate years, "beloved by all those who knew him" and nicknamed "Ma" for the guidance he gave younger athletes.{{r|gazette}} After Newell was killed in 1897 while working as an official of the Boston and Albany Railroad,{{refn|{{cite newspaper|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/12/25/100433809.pdf|title=Marshall Newell Killed|work=The New York Times|date=December 25, 1897}} }} $2,000 was raised for a boathouse in his memory.{{refn|name=gazette|{{cite newspaper|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/10/hidden-spaces-newell-boathouse|title=Hidden Spaces: Newell Boathouse|date=October 19, 2011 | first=Rose|last= Lincoln}} }}

Built in 1900 on the south side of the Charles to a design by Peabody and Stearns (architect Robert Peabody having been rowing captain as a Harvard undergraduate),{{refn|name=st|{{cite book|last1=Shand-Tucci|first1=Douglas|last2=Cheek|first2=Richard|title=Harvard University: An Architectural Tour|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3g6vmGl0UgwC&pg=SL26-PA94|year=2001|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-280-9|page=294}} }}

Newell Boathouse is constructed of concrete, with a slate facade and roof. It was Harvard's first permanent boathouse,{{refn|name=bunting|{{cite book|last1=Bunting|first1=Bainbridge|last2=Floyd|first2=Margaret Henderson|title=Harvard: An Architectural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlaE3-XfmJwC&pg=PA117|year=1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37291-7|page=117}} }}

replacing a series of wooden boathouses in the area.{{refn|{{cite book|last=Haglund|first=Karl|title=Inventing the Charles River|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HA79Wz6-Or0C&pg=PA196|year=2003|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-08307-2|page=196}} }}

In addition to storage for racing shells, the building provides locker rooms, meeting and training rooms, and rowing tanks and other practice equipment.{{refn|name=gocrimson|{{cite web|url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mcrew-hw/facility|title=Men's Heavyweight Crew. Newell Boathouse|publisher=Harvard University|date=2014|access-date=2016-10-01}} }}

Architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting wrote that its "complex profile{{nbsp}}... closely resembling that of Carey Cage reflected in the Charles in the early morning, has made it a landmark on the river."{{r|bunting}}

Site lease

The "prime riverfront space" upon which Newell Boathouse stands belongs to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition to having given the Commonwealth forty-six acres of land downriver, Harvard pays $1 per year for the right to maintain a boathouse on the site, under a lease running one thousand years, at the end of which time Harvard has the option to renew the lease for a further thousand years{{refn|name=cbs|{{cite web|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/05/21/businesses-score-dream-leases-at-taxpayers-expense/|title=Businesses Score Dream Leases At Taxpayers' Expense|first=Joe |last=Shortsleeve|date=May 21, 2012|access-date=2016-10-01|work=CBS Local}} }}{{mdashb}}an example of a peppercorn lease amounting to "virtual freehold."^[1]

History

Site lease

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