The leading social club of the city. It maintains a handsome club house at the corner of 8th St. and 2d Av. S. This building, which cost with site $325,000, was completed in 1908. It Is not only architecturally conspicuous but is one of the most complete club houses, in every detail, recently erected. On the ground floor are the billiard and grill rooms, check rooms, the offices and reception room. In the grill room there is some very effective stained glass work showing views of Minnesota lakes and hunting scenes. On the second floor are the reading and lounging rooms and card rooms. The reading room extends entirely along the Second Av. side of the building and like the other rooms of the first and second floors is finished in dark early English oak. The dining rooms and kitchen are on the third floor. The main dining room is directly over the reading room. It is heavily paneled in oak and the decorations in oil show a series of harvest scenes. Along the Eighth St. side of the second floor are three smaller dining rooms, and the ladies’ cafe and on the two up per floors are the private rooms for the club members living in the building.
During the year 1911 the club added to its property an athletic annex, which is entirely given over to athletic features. On the ground floor is the swimming pool — 60 by 40 feet. On the second floor- are four regulation bowling alleys, the clerk’s office, dressing rooms and a complete Turkish bath department. On the top floor is the gymnasium with complete apparatus, also three squash courts, one hand ball court whore indoor golf can be played and the locker rooms.
The membership of the club includes about 600 of the business and professional men of the city and about 225 non-residents. The entrance fee for resident members is $100 and the annual dues $100, for non-residents $50 and $25. A. R. Rogers is president of the club, and W. A. Ramsey is the secretary.
Hudson’s Dictionary of Minneapolis and Vicinity;
a Handbook for Strangers and Residents-1912
