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Structure Now Nearing Completion Represents a Pine Piece of Work on ,the Part of the States villce Woman’s Club — Nearly as Possible it is a 100 Per Cent. Statesville Product.a:irfitldiitlTriiruoCJItVThe new Woman's Club on West End Avenue, now nearing completion, represents a fine piece of work On 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 :iisappointments 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 will be one of the chief centersof 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 wasneeded, but such a loan is very expensive and the local companies agreed to wait for payment until the ouilding was finished and the club could arrange the loan that will finance the cost of construction.The architecture of the new dub 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. Windows 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 m addition o the quarters of ihe Woman's Clubm the first floor, two five - room apartments on the second floor. These, as 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; thisincluding 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 clubrooms — 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 di-| mensions of the lounge in the old club . house, so that the builders wore able I to use the walls and ceiling of this | room practically as it was. The walls are cream and the woodwork is wal-! nut. The beams that were in the j original clubhouse are preserved in I the ceiling. Fire - places at either I end make this long room delightfully cozy. The mantels are of cream pressed brick and it i8 interesting to note that the Grecian plaque which was above the mantel in the original room was preserved from the fire, and has been duplicated, so that the two mantels are exactly alike. The duplicate plaque was presented to the 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, .*resting u small stage in that end of the lounge, adjacent to the assembly room, arid making it very convenient for a speaker to address an audier.ee 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 lead 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 qshady 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 assem* bly hall one may also go from the lounge directly into a small icloak room. In the left wall of this cloahjroom are French doors leading to theascasVw1*
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1928
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