Loeb Boathouse

74-01 East Drive | also 1000 5th Avenue | Central Park | built 1954

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1874
Calvert Vaux designs a two-story boathouse at the east end of the Lake
Around 1874, Calvert Vaux designs a two-story boathouse at the eastern end of the Lake. Its roof is a deck covered with awnings and furnished with seats, to make up for the view the building blocks from the walk. The structure serves for about eighty years, until it is so run down in the 1950s that it has to be demolished.
Source: centralpark.org
1954
Carl M. Loeb pays for a new boathouse on the Lake
Olmsted and Vaux's Victorian boathouse of the 1870s had decayed and was gone by 1950. Businessman Carl M. Loeb gave $305,000 and the Parks Department added $110,000 for a brick and limestone replacement, completed in 1954, which still rents rowboats on the Lake.
Source: Wikipedia
1983
A small restaurant opens in the boathouse
A $750,000 renovation in 1983 added a 40-seat restaurant, which later grew into a dining room, terraces and snack bars. The boathouse has appeared on screen in When Harry Met Sally... and Sex and the City.
Source: Wikipedia

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