
Adjacent to Andalusia (
BU2) is the odd Gothic-windowed, clapboarded frame clubhouse of a fishing club that was founded by twentyseven gentlemen, including Penn's colonial secretary James Logan and West Philadelphia landowner William Warner, and carries the abstruse claim whose subtlety could only have been framed by Philadelphia lawyers of being the oldest “formally organized” sporting club in the English-speaking world. Merged with the St. David's Fishing Company in 1781, it was renamed the “State in Schuylkill” at the time of the Revolution. The present