Whitmore Lake Club House

WHITEMORE LAKE CLUB HOUSE

The Plans Being Made for the $15,000 House.

The party of Toledoians who went to Whitmore Lake Saturday numbered 60 people. They were members of the projected new Toledo-Whitmore Lake Club. The club is yet in a sort of embryonic state, only a temporary organization having been effected for the purpose of drafting a constitution, bylaws, etc. There are about 200 prominent Toledo gentlemen in the movement. A meeting is to be held in Toledo this week for the purpose of farther perfecting plans. Messrs. J. R. Bach and T. D. Kearney, of this city have been invited to become members and possibly others not known to the Argus.

The purpose of the visit to the lake on Saturday was to look over several proposed locations for the club house, work upon which will be begun just as soon as the necessary arrangements are completed. The club house which the club contemplates building completed throughout would cost probably about $15,000. This was the first project. Another project is to build simply a summer club house fully completed in the first stay and just sealed up in the second, after the manner of summer hotels. The club house will have at least 150 sleeping rooms on the second floor with a spacious dining room, office and other necessary accommodations on the first floor. If this latter plan is followed the building will cost between $6,000 and $8,000. Watcher, Hudson & Co. , of Toledo, are the architects. It is proposed to push the project to an early consummation in order to get the benefits of the club house this season. Arrangements have already been made with the Ann Arbor road to run their Monday morning train from the lake in order to accommodate members of the club who wish to spend Sunday there. The club house will be built near the church and the boat houses down by the lake front. The land on which the club house will be erected will be donated by Mr. J.C. Carland. It is understood that several members of the club will also build cottages at the lake also.