The Dolphin Club, also known as the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club, is an athletic club in San Francisco, California. It caters to open water swimming, rowing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, and 4-wall handball. The clubhouse and boat house buildings are owned by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and leased to the club. The club had 1,000 members in 2010, and claims 1,500 members today. The Dolphin Swimming and Rowing Club was founded in July 1877 by a small group of German immigrants, including John Wieland, Valentine Kehrlein Sr. and their respective sons, together with Edward J Borremans, Louis Schroeder, Edward Peterson, Adolph C. Lutgens and Ernest H. Lutgens, who wanted to form a private sporting and social club, along similar lines to the Turnverein, a club which they had been members of in Bavaria. Membership of the club was originally limited to 25 members. Emil Arthur Kehrlein, the eldest son of Valentine Sr., served as the club's inaugural president. The club petitioned the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to erect a small clubhouse/equipment shack and pier at the junction of Beach and Leavenworth Streets, an area known as Bilge Water Cove. They were granted permission in April 1878. A surplus building was acquired from the Union Iron Works and the new building took a month to erect. More information...
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