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.

Nancy Kerrigan was one of several U.S. Olympic skating legends who gathered at the Skating Club of Boston Thursday to grieve its six members who died in the Washington, D.C., air disaster.

Olympian Nancy Kerrigan broke down in tears during a television interview on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Skating Club of Boston, where six victims of the deadly American Airlines plane crashed belonged.