Rainier Club
- Architect
- Cutter & Malmgren
- Year
- 1903
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Seattle, WA
The Rainier Club is a private club founded in 1888 by six Seattle civic leaders and formally incorporated that July; it has been called 'Seattle's preeminent private club.' Its clubhouse was designed by Cutter & Malmgren, the firm of architect Kirtland Cutter, in 1903 and completed in 1904, a Tudor Revival building for a membership that had grown to 1,300 by 2008.
the building
Founding meeting. The club began at a February 23, 1888 meeting of six civic leaders, including John Leary, a former Seattle mayor and real estate developer, and R. C. Washburn, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Formal incorporation followed on July 25, 1888.
The name and logo. The club takes its name from British Admiral Peter Rainier. Its logo was modeled on that of the Union Club in Victoria, British Columbia, founded in 1877.
the style
The clubhouse is in the Tudor Revival style, designed in 1903 and completed in 1904 by Cutter & Malmgren.
More on Tudor Revivalthe architect
The clubhouse was designed by Cutter & Malmgren, the Seattle firm of architect Kirtland Cutter.
significance
The clubhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and individually designated a Seattle Landmark. The club, founded in 1888 in the Washington Territory the year before statehood, has been described as 'Seattle's preeminent private club,' with 1,300 members as of 2008.
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