St. Paul daily globe., 1888-03-15
HERE LADIES MAY LUNCH.
The Proposed Enlargement Of the Min
nesota Club House.
UNIQUE CLUB FEATURES.
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The Building viii Have an Annex for
Members SWeethearts and
Wives.

For some time there has been de-
mand for mole room and better accom-
niodatiOns for the members of the Min
nesota club and the murmurS of the
anxious ones have at last reached the
governing committee, who are busily
engaged upon plan of improvement
Which they think will meet every want
of their growing organization. This
embraces all addition to the present
club house which will utilize every foot
offfground in the lot south of the dining
room, and will almost double the size of
the building. There are sixty feet in
the lot in question, which extends to the
alley on Cedar street, and the building
committee will decide definitely upon
the plans at their next meeting.
The club house will merely he length
ened and not built any higher than it is
at present. and the same style of archi-
lecture will prevail in the annex.
Under the plan proposed there will be
more private rooms for the members
and increased facilities for dining par
ties, while the billiard room, now located
in the basement, will be changed to one
of the large rooms up stairs.
In the annex arrangements will be
made for large dining hall, to fill a
fong-felt want in St. Paul, that is, a
place where members of the club can
take their
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
after performance at the theater, and
provide comfortable room and a good
supper. This has been talked over
thoroughly among members of the Min
nesOta club, and conclusion has been
reached that this apartment when COM
pleted shall be reserved exclusively for
ladies and their escorts. To the ladies
OF the families of the club members this
will be good news, for when down town
on shopping expedition it will be their
privilege, if the head of the family is
contributing member of the club, to
stop in and take lunch or dinner in
a cOzy dining room, secure from intru-
sion as much as if they were in their
own residences on Summit avenue.
What the cost of the contemplated inn
provement will be no one is pre-
pared to state at present, and
this question will be mystery
until the plans of the architects who
have been invited to make suggestions
have been received and acted upon by
the building committee. Various Sug-
gestiOns have been made by those most
interested, all tending in one direction,
increased space and comfort, and the
work of improving the property now
owned by the club will be inaugurated
as soon as the season will permit build
ing operations. There will be two en-
frances to the building, one for gentle
men that is now used, and the other
near the southern extremity, for the
proposed addition for the accOmmOda-
ti0n of ladies and their escorts.
1.-The rooms up stairs will be designed
SOFAS to give greater number OF
19l SLEEPING APARTMENTS
than the club house now boasts, and
every detail will be carefully looked
after when poll is taken and the
wishes of the club men are ascertained.
Besides, it will be decided improve
ment to Cedar street when the insight
| 1ygap that now exists between the end
Of the club house and the iron fence
that cuts off the alley shall be filled I'D
with handsome modern arranged
| building that will be in keeping with
other surroundings. There is unani-
NOUS desire among the members of the
club that nothing that taste can dictate
orr money procure shall be spared in
making the addition to the club house
something of which st. Paul can justly
beprOud.