Preserving our Community Heritage...Now and For The Future

 
(from an article in the Queen Anne News--1927)

      The Queen Anne Club House

      What it Offers You

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

PROPERTY: Four and two-thirds lots owned by Queen Anne Club and located on southeast corner of Queen Anne Avenue and Garfield Street.

BUILDING: To be 110 feet by 72 feet and of masonry construction. To face on Queen Anne Avenue with second entrance on Garfield Street.

PLANS: Include auditorium 48 feet by 90 feet and capable of seating between 750 and 800 people, tea room (women's lounge room for use for small parties), men's 'lounge room, committee rooms, caretaker's apartment, office and basement recreation room 32 feet by 90 feet where handball and other light exercise may be enjoyed. Billiard tables to be installed here also.

USES: As a community social and cultural center. Established at a centrally located place on Queen Anne Hill where the young folks may congregate and hold their parties.

ESTIMATED COST $40,000. of which more than $22,000 has been raised already. Balance to be raised through contributions and sale of life memberships. Building to be turned over to the club free and clear. Conservatively estimated income more than sufficient to cover all overhead, including janitor service, supervision, taxes, maintenance, etc.

MANAGEMENT: By the Board of Trustees of the Club through a Trustee House Committee governed by a set of rules and regulations prepared by the trustees.

NO PROFITS: The building committee, headed by A. A. Paysse, has adopted an ironclad policy of "no profits" to go to anyone in the construction of this club house. 'A saving of over $2,000 on the excavation work and 4'/r on architect's fees show how they are working.

ARCHITECTS: Hancock & Lockman, architects who are drawing plans and supervising work, have donated 4% of their fee to the club house.

You cannot afford to reject this opportunity to serve yourself and your community in a permanent and substantial way.

 

Source: Queen Anne News: May 13, 1927 from clippings file of James M. Bailey, President, Queen Anne Club

 

 

 

 

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