List of women's club buildings

La Puente Valley Woman's Club
Women's Club of Coconut Grove, founded in 1891
Andover Chapter House, in 2011
General Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters

Women's club buildings (or woman's club buildings) are meeting places of women’s clubs.

A number were built in the early 1900s as part of a scheme by publisher Edward Gardner Lewis to promote sales of Woman's Magazine,[1] but many more were independent organizations. The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) became the primary umbrella organization of women's clubs in the United States. "For the later part of the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century, the women's clubs were an essential vehicle for women's activity outside of the home."[2]:8

Numerous women's club buildings have been evaluated for listing on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places individually or as part of wider collections. Historic preservation studies have been conducted for women's clubhouses in Florida,[3] in Illinois,[1] in New Jersey,[4] in New Mexico,[5] and in Olympia, Washington[6]

In New Mexico alone, a state federation grew to include 59 clubs.[5]

Notable examples include:

See also

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