A New Building
By Mark Martel
The local firm of Schenk and Williams designed the club building, and also supervised construction. The architects included the latest city steam heat and ventilation, with automated valves and regulators plus electric lighting. They built well, knowing they would hear about any problems. They were members.
Still, the work wasn’t perfect. Long-
The reserved Orville Wright broke his perennial silence, speaking publicly at the opening on February 2nd, 1918.
To get things rolling quickly, Deeds and Kettering paid for the building themselves
in excess of $300,000 and subsidized its maintenance and operations for the first
decade. By then membership had grown to the point that the club could be self-
High tech fixtures
The new club building incorporated a number of innovations. A built-
When the waters were
Dried and the Earth did appear,
The Lord He created
The Engineer.
—Kipling
From a 1939 Newsletter cover (25th Anniversary year)
