Frank Lloyd Wright's Fontana Boathouse

194 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, New York
Phone:  716-362-3140
Website:  wrightsboathouse.org 
Architect:  Frank Lloyd Wright         
Year Built:  Designed 1905 – Built 2007    

Hours:  Sat. Oct. 18 & Sun. Oct. 19:  10:00am – 4:00pm

In 1905 Frank Lloyd Wright designed a boathouse at the request of the captain of the University of Wisconsin Rowing Team.  The boathouse was intended for a site on the Yahara River in Madison Wisconsin.  The students were never able to raise the funds needed for the project so their plans never came to fruition.  In 2000, three individuals from Buffalo, all members of West Side Rowing Club, formed Frank Lloyd Wright's Rowing Boathouse Corp. with the express purpose of building Wright's only design for a rowing boathouse and putting it into use for its original intended purpose.