English: The Charles and Marie Fontana Boathouse at Rotary Park, Buffalo, New York, as seen in May 2021. The only boathouse ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Fontana Boathouse has one of the more unusual histories of any of Buffalo's Wright buildings: designed in 1905 (contemporaneously with Wright's most famous Buffalo commissions, the lost Larkin Administration Building and the very-much-alive Darwin D. Martin House), its blueprint appears in the famous Wasmuth Portfolio and was intended to be built for the University of Wisconsin Boat Club in Madison, but was instead built in Buffalo - in 2007, over a century after the design was finalized - and only thanks to the dogged efforts of a local group of aficionados financed largely by Buffalo-born screenwriter Tom Fontana. All the classic Wrightian elements are well represented here - squat massing, horizontal orientation, widely overhanging cantilevers, windows arranged in ribbonlike rows - and its overall appearance presages the work of many of the proto-Modernist designers who owe Wright a debt of influence, such as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, Rietvelld's Schroeder House, Le Corbusier's Domino Housing, not to mention Wright's own Robie House. The only alteration to the original design was the replacement of the stucco on the exterior walls with concrete. The Fontana Boathouse does double duty today as both the working boathouse of the West Side Rowing Club and a destination for the growing legion of architectural tourists who come to Buffalo to see the works of Wright and other greats. The Peace Bridge, connecting Buffalo with Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, is seen in the background.