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received a prominent place in the
Texas Building at the Exposition.
In 1940 two photographs, one an
exterior view and the other an in-
terior view of the Club Rooms of
The Woman's Federated Clubs of
Seguin, were sent to Permanent
Headquarters at Austin for the
Golden Jubilee of the General Fe-
deration, and there we suppose
them still to be.
Construction of the Club Rooms
was begun in the Fall of 1902 and
completed in January, 1903. The
first meeting was held there on
January 27, 1903. Mrs. F. C. Wein-
ert, the treasurer of the Woman's
Federated Clubs in Seguin, sub-
mitted a report on July 5, 1905, in
which report it is stated that in
the two years of the organizaion
$559.37 had been collected and that
$530.21 had been expended in pay-
ment of the Club Rooms and the
improvements.
The Club Rooms were built by
Mr. C. F. Blumberg on the south-
west corner at the intersection of
Crockett and Center Streets. The
dimensions of the building were
forty feet in length and twenty feet
in width. There was a division wall
in the center, thus making The
Club Room and The Rest Room.
A total of ninety-one Club Wo-
men had drawn up the petition and
presented it to the Seguin City
Council for permission to build the
Club Rooms. The petition was sign-
ed by forty-eight members of The
United Daughters of The Confed-
eracy, twenty-six members of The
Village Improvement Society and
seventeen members of The Shakes-
peare Club.
At the meeting in November of
1902, the Minutes state that Mrs.
Dibrell informed the Clubs that
the District Federation had accept-
ed an invitation to hold their
spring meeting in Seguin and that
every effort should be put forth
to complete the Club Rooms be-
fore the District meeting.
It was discovered by March
1903, that the name used by the
federated clubs was incorrect
since it read "Woman's". Quote,
"A motion was carried that this
organization be henceforth known
as the Women's Federated Clubs."
A house warming was held for
the Club Rooms in order to furn-
ish the rooms. "Donations were re-
ceived from the following, Mrs.
Terrell a screen, Mrs. LeGette a
table, chairs were contributed by
Mrs. Dr. Grace, Mrs. Dr. Stamps,
Mrs. Dr. Vaughan, Mrs. A. Y. Mc-
Callum, Mrs. E. Nolte, Mrs. D.
Nolte, Mrs. J. B. Dibrell, Miss Oli-
via Dancy and Mrs. Koch." Later
Mrs. William Meyers donated two
chairs and Mrs. Dorthea Nolte
gave a dozen handmade rush bot-
tom chairs. These chairs have a
history. They had been used in
the Pythian Hall and abandoned
by the Pythians in 1884 when they
moved to new quarters. For near-
ly twenty years the chairs had
been a part of the plunder in the
Nolte Building. Now they were
placed in the Rest Room. The two
chairs donated by Mrs. Meyers
were Dutch style and were refin-
ished in 1950. They still repose
in the Federated Club Rooms.
Many other donations were
made by the members of The Wo-
men's Federated Clubs. Mrs. John
Ireland of Seguin, wife of Gover-
nor Ireland, gave six dining chairs.
They have a rounded back with
tiny side armrests, and they too
have been refinished and are now
a part of the Club Rooms and its
tradition. The table in the kitchen
of the Club Rooms was either the
one given by Mrs. LeGette or the
one given by Mrs. Dibrell. It was
used during the first years of The
Seguin Shakespeare Club as the
president's table, and it is shown
in the early pictures of Club
Room interiors.
The site on which the Club
Rooms were built was leased from
its owner by The Woman's Fed-
erated Clubs for the sum of $15
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