{"nrhp_refnum":"06001212","name":"Garret Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"91 Cleveland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buffalo","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.91779262600005,"lon":-78.87247892399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-01-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped hollow-tile clubhouse at 91 Cleveland Avenue in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, built in 1929 and designed by Buffalo architect Edward B. Green, Jr. for a women's social club.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact example of a women's clubhouse from the golden era of the women's clubhouse movement, historically significant under Criterion A. It is architecturally significant under Criterion C as a French vernacular design that resembles a large house and keeps a high degree of original exterior and interior integrity. It is still used for its original purpose.","narrative":"Set back from Cleveland Avenue behind a walled garden in a quiet residential part of North Buffalo, this clubhouse was built in 1929 for the Garret Club, a women's social organization founded in 1902. Architect Edward B. Green, Jr. designed a two-story, L-shaped building of hollow tile with green-tinted stucco, a gray stone basement and a slate roof, echoing French vernacular country houses so it would blend with neighboring homes. Inside are a long living room, a double-height room called the Garret, a beamed dining room with an antique stone fireplace, and a second-floor library and card rooms. A 1962 project roofed and glazed the south terrace, but the building and its garden are otherwise little altered. It is considered significant as a well-preserved example of the women's clubhouse movement and for its architecture, and it continues to serve as a club for dining and social events.","period_of_significance":"1929-1956","architect_builder":"E.B. Green Jr., Buffalo Architect","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/French Vernacular style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a private social clubhouse for dining and social events; described as remarkably little changed since 1929, apart from a 1962 enclosure of the south terrace.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.133325-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06001212.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001212/33c1d06608-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001212/33c1d06608-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"David from Buffalo, NY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garret_Club_Jan_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David from Buffalo, NY</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garret_Club_Jan_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82005029","name":"Delaware Park-Front Park System","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/delaware-park-front-park-system-82005029/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317621","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5523834"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/garret-club-06001212/"}