New Riding Club

The New Riding Club is an historic building at 52 Hemenway Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1891 and designed by Willard T. Sears, The Riding Club is an example of Tudor Revival architecture.[2] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is the only building remaining of three such facilities built in the neighborhood near the end of the 19th century.

New Riding Club
New Riding Club is located in Massachusetts
New Riding Club
New Riding Club is located in the United States
New Riding Club
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′42.2″N 71°5′21.3″W
Built1891
ArchitectSears, Willard T.
Architectural styleTudor Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.87001394 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 20, 1987

The club was formed by prominent Bostonians whose Back Bay neighborhood largely restricted the stabling of horses and their building's location was chosen to allow riders to use the nearby bridle paths of Frederick Law Olmsted's Back Bay Fens. It contained a riding ring, changing rooms and lounges, and spaces dedicated to stabling, grooming, shoeing, and exercising horses. The former French cavalry officer Henry Lucien de Bussigny, the author of several works on horsemanship, was the riding instructor.[3]

The building was acquired by the Badminton and Tennis Club in 1934, and the interior riding ring was converted to tennis courts. In 1985 the remaining stables were converted to residential apartments.[2]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Morgan, Keith N. (2009). Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston. University of Virginia Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-8139-2709-1.
  3. Henry L. de Bussigny. "French Equitation: un bauchériste en Amérique" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved January 2, 2023 – via Numilog. Excerpts from the French translation; originally published in English


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