In mid-May the College announced that it would build a $400,000 rowing team boathouse on the Mohawk River in the Stockade area of the city of Schenectady.
It is hoped that the boathouse will be ready for the fall rowing season, when the men's and women's crews become varsity sports. The sixty-foot by
eighty-foot structure will be capable of storing twenty-four racing shells. For several years the crew club has been sharing space in the adjacent town of Niskayuna with several other rowing organizations.
President Roger Hull had been discussing a site for a boathouse with the city and several neighboring communities. He says he decided on the Stockade location because it will be an anchor for future riverfront development.
The site is behind a public swimming pool. The city agreed to maintain the area in a
park-like manner, to enhance security throughout the neighborhood, and to sell the pool to the College should the time come when the pool is no longer used.