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Bronxville Women's Club

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
07001041

Phone
  
+1 914-337-3252

Architect
  
Penrose Stout

Built
  
1927

Opened
  
1927

Added to NRHP
  
3 October 2007

Bronxville Women's Club

Location
  
135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville, New York

Address
  
135 Midland Ave, Bronxville, NY 10708, USA

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Siwanoy Country Club, Scarsdale Woman's Club, Rockland Center for the Arts, Pelham Country Club, Katonah Museum of Art

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Bronxville Women's Club is a historic women's club located in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York. Its building was constructed from 1927 to 1928 in the Colonial Revival style and was designed by noted local architect Penrose Stout (1887–1934). Its layout is that of a T-shape, constructed of stuccoed brick on a poured concrete foundation. The front elevation is one and one half stories with a central pavilion flanked by two smaller, recessed pavilions. It has a prominent slate-covered gable roof. The rear of the front section is two and one half stories tall. Most of the ground floor is occupied by an auditorium. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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The club, as an organization, was founded in 1925 by Anna Bisand, daughter of William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), one of the founders of Bronxville. The club exists today as a non-profit educational, social, artistic, and philanthropic membership-based organization.

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Bronxville Women's Club Wikipedia