20th Century Club - Table of Contents

Twentieth Century Club
595 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York

Built:

1895- 1896

Architect:

Green & Wicks

Architectural style:

Italian Renaissance Revival

Historical significance:

The Twentieth Century Club, founded in 1894, was the first club run by women, for women, in the United States.


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Looking north

Looking south

20th Century Club

Renaissance Revival style features columned loggia

Main entrance

Cartouche

Sconce

Italian Renaissance Revival loggia

Loggia: Roman Ionic blue marble columns

Attic floor windows ornamented above and below with terra cotta ornamentation

Entablature



Photos and their arrangement © 2007 Chuck LaChiusa
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