Beverly Hills Women's Club
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Beverly Hills Women's Club was founded in October 1916 and served as a Red Cross unit during the First World War. In 1925 the club raised $4,000 at a horse show attended by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Beverly Hills Hotel owner Stanley S. Anderson, Bel Air developer Alphonzo Bell, and Beverly Hills mayor Silsby Spalding, then used the money to build its clubhouse that same year.
the building
The entrance. The main door is framed by an entablature topped with a pediment bearing a shield and urn motif, flanked by pilasters and scrolled brackets, set into a one-story stucco building with a tiled hip roof and casement windows.
the style
Designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the one-story clubhouse pairs a tiled hip roof and stucco cladding with pilasters, scrolled brackets, and casement windows -- a restrained version of the style suited to a clubhouse rather than a grand civic building.
More on Spanish Colonial Revivalthe architect
The clubhouse was designed by the architectural team Gable & Wyant, who also designed Hangar One.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 4, 2006.
nearby
- Harold Lloyd Estate
- Beverly Hills Hotel
- Falcon Lair
- Sheats Goldstein Residence
- Greystone Mansion
- Royce Hall