who knows what the work looked like to upgrade the lighting though. if i had my guess, i'd say they tore out all the incandescent electrical and literally slapped LED strips on top. i would imagine the lights run on a different circuit than the electrical for each boathouse, but who knows?

i think the core issue is the way the electrical is laid out in those buildings and on the lighting circuit in general. until you enhance the way the circuit is designed and fix the physical wiring therein, you're just polishing a turd.

the boathouses are historically designated as well, so that likely adds a lot of cost and headaches for making modifications. not to say knob and tube is historically designated, but unless all those boathouses have been ripped down to studs and reworked for electrical, there will always be problems.