A successful fundraising campaign that took place throughout the 1930s allowed the club to build its own rink after 25 years of sharing the ice surface.
Despite having a refrigeration system in a concrete slab, the floor of the facility was not well insulated and the low temperatures caused by its operation could affect a nearby underground spring.
Over the previous 50+ years, the original douglas fir timbers had absorbed a great deal of moisture and had begun to rot away.
Initially, the Club tried to come to an arrangement with Harvard University to swap land and construct a new rink on Lincoln Street in Brighton.
When that plan fell through, the club was forced to look outside of Boston city limits and eventually purchased a plot in Norwood in 2017, 20 miles to the south.