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The Friday Morning Club building is located in Downtown Los Angeles at 940 South Figueroa Street, in Los Angeles, California. 〔(HABS: Friday Morning Club )〕 It was the second home of the women's club also named the Friday Morning Club (FMC), for 61 years. The large and elaborate 6−story clubhouse was designed by architects Allison & Allison in an Italian Renaissance Revival style, and built in 1923. ==Club history== The club was founded by abolitionist, suffragist, mother, and Los Angeles homemaker Caroline Severance in 1891, with 87 other women in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel, then located at Second and Broadway. 〔 The Friday Morning Club became the largest women's club in California, with membership of over 1,800 women by the 1920s.〔Scott, Anne Firor. Natural allies: women's associations in American history. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.〕〔Christman, Anastasia J. The best laid plans: women's clubs and city planning in Los Angeles, 1890-1930. Los Angeles: UMI, 2000.〕〔Blair, Karen J. The Torchbearers: Women and their amateur arts associations in America, 1890-1930. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994〕 Women's clubs were a mainstay of middle-class women's social and intellectual life across America from the end of the Civil War until the middle of the 20th century, when their numbers declined as opportunities increased for women's equal participation in mainstream business, educational, and social institutions. Caroline Severance had founded one of the first such clubs in the nation, the New England Women's Club of Boston, in 1868, and her known political associations gave the FMC a (deserved) reputation as a politically active powerhouse for community improvement in Los Angeles.〔 In order to meet their goals of self-improvement; study of the arts, literature and culture; and the political and social advancement of women; the women's clubs built or renovated a building to serve as their club house as soon as they could raise the money. To protect the club and its assets in an era of less-than-solid property rights for married women, clubs routinely formed a stock corporation to raise and invest money for a clubhouse campaign, and usually recruited unmarried member to serve as secretary or treasurer of the club's finances. 〔Theodora Penny Martin, "The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women's Study Clubs 1860-1910", Beacon Press, 1987, page 132.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friday Morning Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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