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Small Clubs in Town and Country 
(Continued from page 54) 
Otis & Clark, architects 
The building for the Indian Hill Chib at Winnetka, III., is an 
adaptation of the Colonial design, roomy without being too 
pretentious 
combinations are permissible—desir¬ 
able indeed, because of their stimulat¬ 
ing effect upon eye and mind—which, 
despite their piquant charm, would be 
scarcely feasible within home-bounds 
on account of their venturous orig¬ 
inality. The whole atmosphere of a 
small clubhouse should suggest con¬ 
viviality, and joyfulness unrestrained, 
if not exuberant. Can that joyful¬ 
ness of good fellowship ever be ade¬ 
quately expressed in any dull mono¬ 
tone, however harmonious? 
Clubs, both large and small, play 
such an important role in modern 
life, that it is almost impossible to 
outline any suggestions likely to prove 
of real helpfulness in determining 
what form the inner arrangement 
and equipment of even the smallest 
clubhouse should assume, so long as 
no two organizations embrace the 
same activities or cope with quite 
uniform problems. Probably the 
only clubs which run even fairly 
close to a definite type are those 
smaller ones begat by the Feminist 
Movement, that has leaped from 
continent to continent during recent 
decades; and they correspond in 
form because intellectual and social 
pursuits, not unnaturally, have chief 
place in the calendar of the majority 
of women’s organizations. 
In a woman's club, interest inevi¬ 
tably centres upon one main room, 
adapted alike in area and in appoint¬ 
ments to use both for club meetings 
and occasional entertainments. There 
must, however, also be an adequate 
provision for the innumerable com¬ 
mittee meetings that thrust them¬ 
selves into any club year. In plan¬ 
ning a small clubhouse, the part of 
wisdom is so to place these neces¬ 
sary rooms for committees that their 
area may readily be called into requi¬ 
sition to accommodate any overflow 
of guests from the main club room. 
This, of course, can best be done 
by arranging the rooms en suite, with 
wide communicating doorways which 
can be thrown open throughout. 
And what clubhouse, whether for 
men or for women, would be en¬ 
tirely complete without a culinary 
department? True, in a day when 
domestic science is likewise an art, 
the culinary department need not 
usurp much space; but it must be 
irreproachable in its appointments, 
well lighted, generously ventilated, 
and so equipped that the preparing 
and serving of food may be accom¬ 
plished at all times with the utmost 
convenience and dispatch. 
Types of Architecture 
The type to which perhaps the ma¬ 
jority of our women’s clubs outward¬ 
ly adhere can be placed under the 
heading, Bungalow—though only in 
the very elastic sense in which the 
term is customarily used. More ac¬ 
curately, this generally accepted type 
might be characterized as a blending 
of Bungalow and English Cottage 
influences, readily recognizable in 
two of the illustrations which ac¬ 
company this article. Though their 
constructive materials differ widely, 
there is undoubtedly a family re¬ 
semblance discernible in these two 
examples—The Porch Club at Riv¬ 
erton, New Jersey, and The New 
Century Club at Middletown, Dela¬ 
ware—not only in size, but in com¬ 
position and general effect. 
If any architectural style may be 
said to predominate in the designs 
of our lesser country clubs, it is the 
Colonial. There is no apparent cause 
for this, other than the amazing 
adaptability of the style and its gen¬ 
eral popularity. The log cabin has 
already been mentioned as an equally 
appropriate type of structure for a 
clubhouse of sufficiently isolated lo¬ 
cation ; but it is only one of several 
interesting alternatives. The topo¬ 
graphical character of the site should 
of course always be a fundamental 
consideration in the selection of any 
stylistic treatment—and if that topog¬ 
raphy be at all distinctive it should 
be viewed as a golden opportunity 
for the play of striking originality 
in the design of the clubhouse. 
City Clubhouses 
As a rule, originality is rather more 
difficult to embody when a small club 
is to be located upon a city street, 
rather than on a site of unrestricted 
area; for, very properly, some cog¬ 
nizance must be taken of the ar¬ 
chitectural character of any neigh¬ 
boring building in order to avoid an 
offense against the eye either in line 
or coloring. There is, however, at 
least one street wherein originality 
can and does have full swing—and 
that street lies in the very heart of 
Philadelphia. 
A very lowly street it was—and 
not so very long ago—a little by¬ 
way, but wide enough for a single 
cart, indiscriminately peopled by 
blacks and whites and dingily lined 
by weather-beaten little two-story 
houses. So central and withal so 
quaint, the picturesque and practical 
qualities of the street in time touched 
a responsive chord: and club after 
club gradually acquired the old 
houses, restoring and altering but 
never destroying their early simplic¬ 
ity. Today, the street is a thing 
unique and fascinating—not only as 
an alluring bit of Bohemia, wherein 
the literary and artistic lights of a 
great city find a constant source of 
inspiration, but as a veritable king¬ 
dom of clubs, wherein the various 
little clubhouses are, collectively, as 
harmonious as they are, individually, 
distinctive and original. It should be 
a guide and inspiration to others. 
