Skating Club of Boston is founded.
April 30, 1912
(April) An outgrowth of the informal Back Bay Skating Club (est. 1909), whose members skated on local ponds, it is founded by George Atkinson Jr., A. Winsor Weld, and others and its members skate originally on Hammond Pond in Newton. The third oldest skating club in continuous existence in the U.S. (after the Philadelphia Skating Club in 1849 and Cambridge Skating Club in 1898), its purpose is to promote the New (later International) Style of figure skating, and it goes on to produce numerous national, world, and Olympic champions. The club moves to the Boston Arena and then a small rink in Cambridge, before moving to a new building in 1939.* It moves to a new facility in Norwood in 2020.
Sources
- Boston Globe
- Boston School Committee