The Beverly Hills Women's Club is an historic clubhouse and social club in Beverly Hills, California.Caroline M. Roman, Beverly Hills Women's Club Holiday Tea with Tiffany & Co., The Huffington Post, January 05, 2011USC Digital Library: Society -- Beverly Hills Women's Club, 1951USC Digital Library: Beverly Hills Women's Club plans party, 1952USC Digital Library: Beverly Hills Women's Club Bunny Brunch, 1960Beverly Hills filesMarc Wanamaker, Early Beverly Hills, Arcadia Publishing, 2005, p. 73
History
Beginnings The club was founded in October 1916, and it served as a unit for the American Red Cross during the First World War.
The clubhouse In 1925, they raised US$4,000 at a horse show attended by the likes of Hobart Bosworth, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Stanley S. Anderson (owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel), Cecilia DeMille (daughter of Cecil B. DeMille), Charles E. Toberman, Silsby Spalding (Mayor of Beverly Hills), and Alphonzo Bell (developer of Bel Air, California). Later that year, they used that money to move into the newly constructed clubhouse. The clubhouse is a one-story, stucco-clad Spanish Colonial Revival with a tiled hip roof.S. F. Cook, Tina Skinner, Spanish Revival Architecture, Schiffer Publishing, 2005, p. 76 It features pilasters, scrolled brackets, an entablature topped by a pediment with a shield and urn motif surrounding the main door, and casement windows. It was designed by the architectural team Gable & Wyant, who also designed Hangar One.Pacific Coast Architectural Database
The clubhouse has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California since October 4, 2006.
The social club Early members, who rode horses to make their way to the club, included Mrs Burton E. Green and actress Norma Shearer. Special guests included Amelia Earhart and Gloria Swanson. It sponsored the Will Rogers Horse Show and exhibited art such as El Greco's Saint Francis of Assisi and, in 2007, Roland Muri.Swiss Review:The Magazine for the Swiss Abroad, 2006, p. 48 In 1930, they created the Electric Fountain in Beverly Hills through efforts from Harold Lloyd's mother.Jeff Dickey, Rough Guide to Los Angeles, Rough Guides, 2003, p. 115
In 1963, they published a cookbook, Beverly Hills Women's Club Cook Book: Fashions in Food.Google Books
Recent guests include Stephen J. Cannell. One former president is Jill Tavelman, ex-wife of singer Phil Collins and mother of actress Lily Collins.
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