Weld Boathouse
Weld Boathouse as seen from theCharles River
General information
Type	Boathouse
Location	Charles River Basin Historic District
Address	971Memorial Drive
Town or city	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°22′10″N71°07′20″W / 42.3694°N 71.1221°W /42.3694; -71.1221
Named for	George Walker Weld
Year(s) built	1906–1907
Cost	$100,000
Owner	Harvard University
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Peabody and Stearns

Weld Boathouse is aHarvard University-owned building on the bank of theCharles River inCambridge, Massachusetts. The current structure was designed byPeabody and Stearns and is named forGeorge Walker Weld, who donated the funds for its construction.

Weld Boathouse is the second of two boathouses built at this location along the Charles River near Harvard byGeorge Walker Weld. The first was built in 1889. The second, current structure was built in 1906–1907 to a design byPeabody and Stearns with funds that Weld bequeathed for that purpose.^[1][2] The construction cost $100,000.^[3]

Although previously used for Harvard men's freshmen crew team, Weld Boathouse is currently the home of the heavyweight and lightweight crews of Harvard's varsity women's rowing. These programs retain the title of Radcliffe Women's Crew, a reminder of the phased merger ofRadcliffe College into Harvard University during the latter part of the 20th century. Additionally, Weld Boathouse is home to Harvard's recreationalsculling program and the House Crews of Harvard College's twelve residential colleges. Graduate rowing programs also use Weld. Harvard men's rowing usesNewell Boathouse on the Boston side of the river. The boathouse is situated at the halfway point of theHead of the Charles Regatta.

Until recent decades, rowing and sculling used finely crafted wooden boats. In that tradition, Weld was home to the hand-carving of a traditionalbaidarka of the type used byAleutian hunters.^[4]

Next to the boathouse is theAnderson Memorial Bridge built in 1913 by Weld's nieceIsabel Weld Perkins and her husbandLarz Anderson. This bridge was designed with "a high enough arch to admit the passage of all sorts of pleasure craft." Both the Weld Boathouse and the Anderson Memorial Bridge were funded by heirs to the fortune of 19th century magnateWilliam Fletcher Weld.^[2]

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  Front view with first-floor plan
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  Front view with second-floor plan
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• Harvard Crimson
• List of Charles River boathouses

• Harvard Crimson 2/4/1981 "Blaze Burns Weld Boathouse, Causes Little Serious Damage" by Paul Jefferson and Thomas J. Meyer
• Harvard Magazine November-December 1998, "The Welds of Harvard Yard" by associate editor Craig A. Lambert
• Jamaica Plain Historical Society, "The Weld Family"
• Project Gutenberg,Book of Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain by Harriet Manning Whitcomb

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