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[[Image:Boathousetoday.jpg|thumb|Current boathouses at [[Baker Field]] on the [[Harlem River]]. The Class of 1929 Boathouse is at left, the Gould-Remmer Boathouse at right. ]]

The Columbia [[crew]] team's '''boathouses''' are located on the [[Harlem River]], part of the  [[Baker Field]] facility. 

The ensemble consists of the old, no longer used '''Gould-Remmer Boathouse''', and the new, three bay '''Class of 1929 Boathouse''' (named for the last year that Columbia rowers won the national championship) which began construction in [[1999]] and was completed in [[2001]].<ref>[http://en.mcfly.org/Baker_Field Baker Field, Columbia University in The City of New York]</ref> The two buildings sit side-by-side. A third building is planned<ref>[http://www.kbarchitects.com/cucrew.htm Crew Facility at Baker Field Columbia University]</ref>, and a portion of the [[Columbia Campaign for Athletics]] is designated for it.

==Historic Boathouses==
The original boathouses, however, were located on the [[Hudson]], even as Columbia's 19th century [[Midtown campus]] was closer to the East River. 

The original Gould Boathouse was built in [[1895]] on the Hudson River at 115th street, a gift of Edwin Gould (Mines 1888). It was accessible from Riverside Park by bridge that crossed the train tracks of the New York Central railway. 1895 was the year that the crew team led the move to the [[Morningside Heights campus]] by moving into what is now [[Buell Hall]], two years before the school formally moved uptown. It burned down in 1927 shortly after the crew team had abandoned it and moved to the Gould-Remmer Boathouse at Baker Field.<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F13FB3E5F147A93C3AA1783D85F438285F9&scp=7&sq=columbia%20university%20alma%20mater%20explosion&st=cse Historic Boathouse Burns as Throngs Watch from Riverside]], N.Y. Times, 31 August 1927.]</ref>

==Gallery==

===Current boathouses===
<gallery>
Image:Boathouses.jpg|Telephoto shot of the boathouses from the river
Image:Co1929boathouse.jpg|Close-up of the Class of 1929 Boathouse
Image:Boathousecove.jpg|The inlet sheltering Columbia's boathouses, from above
Image:1930sboathouse.jpg|The new Gould-Remmer Boathouse in use during the 1930s
</gallery>

===Hudson boathouses===
<gallery>
Image:Oldboathouse.jpg|The original Gould boathouse with [[Grant's Tomb]] in the far background
Image:Oldboathouse2.jpg|Another view of the original Gould boathouse
Image:Columbiaboathouse.jpg|Gould boathouse, side view
Image:Oldestboathouse.jpg|Columbia's first boathouse, seen here in [[1878]]
</gallery>

== References ==
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[[Category:Athletics facilities]]