It\u2019s hard to imagine a time when the intersection of Mill Avenue and 13th Street \u2014 just across from Gammage Auditorium in Tempe \u2014 was considered \u201ctoo far out of town.\u201d <\/p>\n
That was a complaint when the Tempe Woman\u2019s Club was first built there nearly 90 years ago. <\/p>\n
Luanne Davis is the current president of the club founded in 1912.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think at that time it was called the Mother’s Club. In 1913, they joined an international organization called the General Federation of Women’s Clubs,” Davis said. <\/p>\n
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Tempe Woman’s Club<\/p>\n
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Members of the Tempe Woman’s Club in 1967. The goal of the club is to perform acts of service in the community.<\/p>\n
And the chief purpose was to perform acts of service. A legacy that continues to this day. The club built its headquarters in 1936.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s one of a few adobe buildings left in Tempe, and I suppose the Valley for that matter,” Davis said. <\/p>\n
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Tempe Woman’s Club<\/p>\n
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The Tempe Woman’s Club building is made of adobe. <\/p>\n
Davis says the club fell into disrepair after the group briefly lost the building in 2017 due to mismanagement. They got the club back through a court order in 2024, \u201cActually [we] got the keys in 2025.”<\/p>\n
Since then, they\u2019ve been making much needed improvements including paint and a new HVAC unit. The hope is to start renting out the club and use that revenue to maintain the building.<\/p>\n
Besides making updates to the building, the club has also updated its membership policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMen can join. Absolutely. We have about six [or] seven men who are members of the club,” including Tempe\u2019s Mayor Corey Wood, she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to imagine a time when the intersection of Mill Avenue and 13th Street \u2014 just across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-471485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115782354711099310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}