{"nrhp_refnum":"11000270","name":"20th Century Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"595 Delaware Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buffalo","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.90232069100006,"lon":-78.87257932999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture","Art","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story clubhouse at 595 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, built in three stages between 1895 and 1924 in an Italian Renaissance / Classical Revival style, with a rear Italian-style garden. The firms Green & Wicks and Bley & Lyman designed the building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the clubhouse is significant in social history as the home of a women's cultural club founded by Charlotte Mulligan. It is also significant for its architecture, as one of the best local examples of Neo-Classical Revival work, and for its art, including the Alice Glenny murals and fine period interiors. The Italian garden by Harold LeRoy Olmsted adds landscape architecture significance.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1895 and 1924, this clubhouse at 595 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo served as the home of a women's cultural club founded by Charlotte Mulligan. Green & Wicks designed the original building in 1895-1896, and Bley & Lyman later expanded and remodeled it. The exterior has a rusticated limestone base, buff brick and terra cotta above, and a second-story loggia with paired Ionic columns. Inside, the principal rooms are on the second floor, including the column-ringed Court, a paneled Gallery, and the oval Dining Room. The Glenny Room holds four large murals painted by club member Alice Glenny between 1898 and 1920. At the rear, an Italian-style garden laid out by Harold LeRoy Olmsted was completed by 1926 and is topped by a statue of Ceres. The building was listed for its social history, architecture, art and landscape architecture, with a period of significance of 1895 to 1933. The club still uses it as a clubhouse.","period_of_significance":"1895-1933","architect_builder":"Green & Wicks, Bley & Lyman (Architects); Harold LeRoy Olmsted (Landscape Architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals / Classical Revival (described in the text as Italian Renaissance style)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is clubhouse; the former pool room and dressing room are used for storage and the gymnasium has become a meeting room.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.925943-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000270.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000270/6c28958689-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000270/6c28958689-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twentieth_Century_Club_Buffalo_NY_Nov_10.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twentieth_Century_Club_Buffalo_NY_Nov_10.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001232","name":"Delaware Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/delaware-avenue-historic-district-74001232/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317526","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Club_(Buffalo,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7857700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/20th-century-club-11000270/"}