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Architecture, Social History
Historic Place
Women's Club
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About this site
Women's Club is a historic place in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 1979. It is one of 27 historic places documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7671, -106.4948 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is Woman's Club of El Paso (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Early El Paso Water Systems, Wallace Apartments, and B'Nai Zion Synagogue, Old.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2079002935. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Woman's Club of El Paso grew from a small literary gathering formed in 1894 into a civic organization that pressed for public sanitation, food-safety laws, and the protection of San Jacinto Plaza. Its clubhouse at 1400 North Mesa Drive, designed by architect Otto H. Thorman and opened on November 8, 1916, is regarded as the first free-standing woman's clubhouse built in Texas, blending Georgian and Beaux-Arts influences. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1980.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgwcoep.orghmdb.org
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