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Educational and recreational : Lectures, moving pictures, night 

 schools, entertainments, billiards, pool, bowling, table games, 

 reading room, and library. 



Social: Dancing, banquets, suppers, club meetings, socials, and 

 parties. 



Athletic: Baseball, basket ball, and tennis. 



Political: Political meetings and elections. 



Hygienic: Nursery, welfare work, and rest rooms. 



Religious: Union church work. 



Gymnastic: Activities of the gymnasium. 



In addition to the organizations already mentioned as using the 

 buildings, the following were also found : Parent-teacher association, 

 commerce club, board of trade, women's club, county . agricultural 

 society, town board. Daughters of the American Revolution, Young 

 Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, 

 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Grange, Farmers' Educa- 

 tional and Cooperative Union of. America, Society of Equity, choral 

 society, athletic association, various fraternal organizations, Farmers' 

 League, art club, driving association, hospital corps, Young People's 

 Christian Association, industrial club, dairy association, civic associa- 

 tion, fire department, poultry association, men's club, relief society, 

 ladies' aid society, Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, 

 Sunday school, cooperative marketing association, and county 

 medical society. 



SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY BUILDINGS. 



In the following pages are presented brief statements relative to 

 the origin, purpose, and present use of typical community buildings. 

 These buUdings have been chosen with a view to showing examples of 

 community buildings constructed or acquired under a variety of con- 

 ditions and serving different types of communities. It is believed 

 that the concrete story of how some one community actually secured 

 and used a community building will often prove more suggestive to 

 other communities interested in the question than any statement 

 in the form of a composite summary or tabulation of the results of the 

 investigation of many buildings. 



THE COMMUNITY HOUSE, HOLDEN, MASS. 



The community house of Holden, Mass., together with the organ- 

 zation connected with it, is an example of the revival of civic pride, 

 public spirit, and true neighborliness in a small but very old New 

 England rural community. Among the immediate causes con- 

 tributing to the enterprise were, first, a developing movement toward 

 expansion along social lines, as indicated by the organization of 

 several societies with various social objects but with no adequate 



