A boathouse (or a boat house ) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats , normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. These are typically located on open water, such as on a river . Often the boats stored are rowing boats . Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
6-463: The Stuntz Bay Boathouse Historic District comprises a row of 143 boathouses on Lake Vermilion in Breitung Township, Minnesota , United States. They were mostly built in the first half of the 20th century by employees of the adjacent Soudan Iron Mine . The mining company provided the lots to employees as a reward for their years of service, and the miners did their own construction. Most of
12-427: The headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells , in which case it may be known as a shell house . Boat houses may also include a restaurant , bar , or other leisure facilities, perhaps for members of an associated club. They are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing. In Scandinavia,
18-458: The boathouse is known as a naust , a word deriving from Old Norse naverstað . These were typically built with stone walls and timber roofs and would be either open to the sea or provided with sturdy doors. The floors would be a simple continuation of the beach sand or rock, or they might be dug down to permit a boat to sail into the boathouse. The boathouse is also seen on riversides or lake sides. 3. Drower, George, `A boat's abode: boathouses of
24-501: The boathouses were built with tamarack logs and scrap corrugated metal from the mine property. Boating and fishing were major pastimes for the mine employees and their families in their leisure hours, and the mining company promoted access to outdoor recreation as a perk of employment. The Stuntz Bay Boathouses were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for their local significance in
30-442: The boathouses, the ruins and smokestack of a compressor house built for the mine in 1884 and demolished around 1930 form another contributing property. The final three contributing properties consist of a fishing dock at the far east end of the boathouses, a boat ramp in the middle dating to about 1940, and a large rock outcrop midway up the east side that served as a fishing spot and landmark. Boathouse A boathouse may be
36-484: The themes of architecture, entertainment/recreation, industry, and social history. They were nominated for illustrating the personal lives of the miners and vernacular metal architecture. The Stuntz Bay Boathouses largely remain family-owned inholdings within what is now Soudan Underground Mine State Park . 140 of the boathouses are considered contributing properties to the historic district and three recently rebuilt boathouses are non-contributing. Just inland from
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