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Structure Now Nearing Completion Represents a Pine Piece of Work on ,the Part of the Statesvillce Woman’s Club — Nearly as Possible it is a 100 Per Cent. Statesville Product.iThe new Woman’s Club on West End Avenue, now nearing completion, represents a fine piece of work bn the part of club members, officers and particularly on the part of the club’s president, Mrs. E. M, Land. When the club home that the organization had bought some six months previously was destroyed by fire last winter the president urged the club to look upon :lisappointments and discouragements ‘as a test of character and club I6y-alty and face the new club year with renewed determination to carry on hat we may see the fulfillment of our hopes.” And the organization is carrying on — the new home stands as proof of that. The building is one of which the entire community may be proud. It is to be the home of one )f the outstanding women’s organizations of Statesville, whose purpose as expressed in its constitution is to “stimulate, awaken and promote the educational, literary, domestic and civic betterment of the city,” and to “foster a generous public spirit.” As the home of this organization, whose membership is made up of more than two hundred women of the community, it wul be one of the chief centers of community interest.“As nearly as it has ben possible we have endeavored to make the Woman’s Club home a 100 per cent. Statesville product,” said Mrs. E. M. Land, the club’s president. '“All the millwork has been done by a local plant and we have tried to divide our purchases of building material among as large a number of local companies as possible.” Mrs. Land expressed appreciation for the kindness and consideration of these local companies who have been willing to carry bills for supplies until the building wascompleted. A construction loan was needed, but such a loan is very expensive and the local companies agreed to wait for payment until the tmilding was finished and the club could arrange the loan that will finance the cost of construction.The architecture of the new club home is of the English type. The first .tory is constructed of rough - texture tapestry brick, with the second story of stucco and half timbers. The wood of the exterior trim is rough-cut cypress, stained Vandyke brown. The roof is of asphalt shingles. Win-iows are of the English casement -ype and the building is screened chroughout with copper mesh. The front verandah has a flor of rubble random tile bordered with rough-aur-face tapestry brick. The walk is of this same tile, with brick border, and the steps are of brick. The house is act back about forty feet from the street, and the yard has been terraced at a distance of sixteen feet from the house.The club home contains in addition o the quarters of the Woman’s Ciubn the first floor, two five - room apai’tments on the second floor. These, has previously been stated, have both been rented. One is to be occupied the first of December; the other the first of January. The rent from these apartments will take care of and ultimately retire the long - term loan which finances the building. In the rear of the club - building is a double garage for the use of the occupants of the apartments and opening from each garage is a packing - room that the occupant of the apartment may use for a storage room.The total cost of the new building will be approximately $16,500; this including the walks, the terracing of the yard, the garage, etc. The cost • f the building itself will be about $16,000.The lower floor contains the elubrooms — a lounge, assembly room, cloak room, dressing room, and a committee room; with the kitchen, pantry and a small storage room. From the front door one enters a vestibule, with tile floor and walls finished in narbleized tile effect, passing from this vestibule directly into the lounge. This room extends across the front of the house and has exactly the dimensions of the lounge in the old club house, so that the builders were able to use the walls and ceiling of this room practically as it was. The walls are cream and the woodwork is walnut. The beams that were in the original clubhouse are preserved in the ceiling. Fire - places at either end make this long room delightfully cozy. The mantels are of cream pressed brick and it is interesting to note that the Grecian plaque which was above the mantel in the original room was preserved from the fire, anil has been duplicated, so that the two mantels are exactly alike. The duassembly room, so that late • comers may enter without going through the front entrance. On the Tight from the cloak - room one enters a small dressing - room with lavatory adjoining, while a door in the rear wall of the cloakroom leads to the kitchen. The kitchen is most conveniently arranged with built - in equipment of moaern type. A cabinet for kitchen; utensils is on one side, while on the opposite side of the room, under the casement windows which extend the length of the room is a large sink, with a long drip shelf on either side and a rail built in above the drip shelf for dishes/ The drip shelves are covered with a nickel - finished zinc.and the space under the sink and shelves is occupied with built-in compartments for kitchen equipment. The pantry adjoins the kitchen and it* toe, is equipped with a sink and with ahinlt.in nttViinofc fnv nViitin. fFVin ftiulrRMiSrcStbiHi♦ t’ivewibuilt-in cabinet for china. The sink and cabinet in the pantry were saved from the old building, and incidentally it was noted that much salvaged material from the old building—doors, hardware, etc., was used in the pantry, storage room, thus saving the organization several hundred dollars in building costs. In fact the entire building shows careful planning. Nothing has been sacrificed that would make for greater convenience, but there has been no waste.The pantry communicates directly with the assembly room through a swinging door. Back of the pantry is a small storage room that is convenient for storing folding chairs and other club furniture.In the rear of the assembly room, and on the right, doors lead into a committee room or office, which is one of the most attractive rooms in the club quarters. It has a casement win-dw, facing south and entrances both from the assembly room and from the rooms in the rear of the building.In the basement of the club qimr ters is the steam heating plant which heats the club rooms. This basement room has a large coal bin and also considerable storage space. This is the original basement room in the old building, and the concrete floor and walls are the same.In the front of the building on either side of the main entrance, which leads to the club quarters on the fit at floor, are the entrances of the two apartments which are located on the second'floor. Each apartment has n small porch in front of its own door, with tiled floor, and also an upper porch directly, over the lower porch. From the front door one enters a •mall entrance hall with stairs leading up to the apartment. Each apartment has a living - room, dining room, kitchen, and two bedrooms with bath connecting. The woodwork anu walls except in the kitchen and both are tinted ivory, but the door panels are of naturally finished fir. From the living room of each apartment a door leads into a small hall which runs the length of the upartment, and all rooms open off this hall, so,that it is unnecessary to go through one room to get to another. In the kitchen the woodwork is painted a Dutch blue, and inthe bathrooms the woodwork is painted a light-green. Bathrooms have tile .floors and the walls are of Keene cement in tile - finish. Each bathroom has complete built-in fixtures, jneiud-ing a built - in medicine cabinet with mirror. One kitchen is equipped with electric refrigeration; the other wasnot so equipped at the request of the renter who has his own electric refrigerator. Each kitchen has an outside entrance by means of a stairway on the side of the building. Apartments have ample closet space, each having a convenient linen closet and large clothes closets in. each bedroom. Each living room has an open fireplace. The apartments are heated by steam and each has its own heating plant. There are small basement rooms on either side of the building, lined with asbestos and with concrete floors, when*, these small furnaces are located. Each basement room has a coal bin holding a ton of coal, and each has some storage space. In addition to the outside entrance for the janitor these small basement rooms may also be entered thrug a door under the staircase in the entrance hall of the apartment, making it very convenient for the occupant to look after his own fire. Floors throughout the building in the club rooms and in the apartments art* of hard wood.The finishing touches are being put on the interior of the building this week. Radiators are being painted, light fixture^ installed, floors waxed, etc. One apartment will be occupied I. next week by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blackmer, Jr., who are moving* here from Salisbury; the other will be occupied the first of the year, it is understood. The club quarters are to be formally opened to the public early next month/ but it has been impossible as yet to fix a date for thisopening ami further announcementsin regard to it will be made later.s*ilt;thnrththncPibihlt;jomtlfiisirg*nvneiingao9uc!ttw1Crooks Trick Farmer Out ofTobacco Money$60 ofBurlington, Nov. 28.—J. Will Rier-son, of near Siler City, wns “worked”- - — .... , by three crooks here today jor msplicate plaque was presented to the i $69 of tobacco monev.* l I ft V ft V * mm , rt • , , , *club by Mr. Martin L. Hampton.From the lounge one may go directly into the club assembly room, a room 47x22 feet, which runs the length of the building and will seat 225 to 250 people. The floor of the lounge is elevated slightly over the assembly room, .•reating a small stage in that end of the lounge, adjacent to the assemblyRierson had handed this cash to one man, in the qcfc of “posting” it as a bet that a spring knife could notbe opened by a second man, when another crook walked up, impersonating an officer. The farmer was accused of being drunk and led back to where he was supposed to have thrown the bottle. In the meantime the first tworoom, arid making it very convenient disappeared with the money* i „ x i i , . J i » l _ *w I - W wfor a speaker to address an audience ir. the assembly room.The walls and woodwork of the assembly room are finished in four tones of brown, with the walls in panel effect, Casement windows are along one side of the room and at the rear French doors jead to a small open porch. This porch has been built around the trunk of a pecan tree which stood in the rear of the club building, so that the tree will form a shady roof over the porch in summer. The porch overlooks the rear yard, where the Garden club will lay off a tea garden that is to be a thing'of beauty,Besides the entrance to the assembly hall one may also go from the lounge directly into a small *eloak room. In the left wall of this cloakjroom are French doors leading to theOfficers w’ere notified, but no trace j of the crooks was found.Raleigh-Wilmington Contest FridayFayetteville, Nov. 29,—Preparationsare rapidly being concluded for the big eastern championship high schoo’ game between Raleigh and Wilmington at Highland park bare * Friday, Novopiber 30. There is good reasoi to expect a big crowd. There havlt; been big crowds for the two yen' past when the title games of the easi nave been played here. Fayetteville will turn out for the game and Wilmington has never been known tc ‘fail-to support her team. Raleigl will bring a large delegation,■W ... — f — m m ,Cuba is starting an energetic drivagainst cancer with cooperation othe Anti-Cancer league.
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1928
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