For the next eight decades, the utilitarian barn on the banks of the Charles River was one of the centers of American figure skating, training Button and fellow Olympic champion Tenley Albright, Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie and scores of U.S. champions.

The Skating Club of Boston is “taking it one day at a time” in grieving the deaths of six of its members in the tragic plane crash in D.C. as its CEO says plans are in the works to memorialize