Vesper Boat Club - 1900 Olympic men's eight gold

Vesper Boat Club, on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row, supplied the crew that represented the United States in the men's eight at the 1900 Paris Olympics and won the gold medal. The club, founded in 1865, is a long-established center of competitive rowing on the Schuylkill River. Boathouse Row remains a historic rowing landmark tied to early U.S. Olympic rowing success.