The Artistic Home of the Mask and Wig Club 
vided with a small stage, with dressing rooms 
in the rear. The old peaked roof retained 
its original contour and the proscenium arch 
was shaped to accord with it. A small gal¬ 
lery cut directly across the front end of the 
hall and served to utilize the space lost in 
providing the stairway. 
All the more elaborate alterations in the 
construction of the house were made in 1901, 
when extensions were made both back and 
front. This time the whole character of the 
front was changed. Mr. Eyre made two 
the old, the line of demarcation being an old 
water-spout. 
The material of the addition is yellow 
rough-cast. Over the door, in the shadow 
of a heavy wooden hood, is the number 310, 
and the title of the Club, skilfully lettered 
by Mr. Nicola d’Ascenzo in black and gold 
upon a flowing green ribbon. Directly in 
the center is a large, grotesque mask, cast in 
terra cotta. The other openings consist of 
two rows of old fashioned casement windows 
fitted with diamond shaped panes which light 
THE GRILL ROOM OF THE MASK AND WIG CLUB 
drawings for the facade of the house with 
different schemes for utilizing the fifteen- 
foot frontage. The more agreeable of the 
two — though both are charming—brought 
the lower floor out to the building line and 
left the second story as it was. The second 
drawing called for building out the entire 
front, enlarging both first and second floors 
by piecing on, as it were, to the original 
walls. This was chosen as the more practical 
of the two. From the side of the building 
the new part is easily distinguishable from 
the auditorium and the gallery. In the gable 
above is slate. Depressions in the exposed 
southern wall suggest the shape of church 
windows which either existed and have been 
filled up, or which were simply indicated and 
left for a more flourishing time in the con¬ 
gregation’s resources that never came. These 
make one more link with that almost mythi¬ 
cal past. 
Last year the Club House was altered for 
the third time, mainly on the second floor. 
Additional space was gained by extending 
