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1917 Syracuse Herald article announcing the building's opening
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"New University Club Ready for Use this Week" – The Syracuse Herald, Sunday, June 3, 1917
The following excerpt was taken from a 1917 Syracuse Herald article announcing the opening of the new University Club building.
“As clubhouses go, it is quite as distinctive and possesses perhaps more thorough adaptability to its use than any in the city. The scheme is English-Georgian, inspired by the clubs of Piccadilly…
Outside the building is red brick, contrasted with Bedford limestone colonnades and balustrades of the veranda and facings in green and red on the angular bay windows and the semi-cupola gables at the roof…
The main corridor on the ground floor gives entrance into three rooms, the dining room at the right, the library at the left and tap room in the rear. The second floor, reached by the stairway from the main corridor is chiefly made up of the lounge, the veranda and the card room….The third floor is of residential quarters or dormitories, with rooms for visitors, guests and members.
A billiard room, forty feet square, is located in the basement… The dining hall is walled in gray, with dark green or brown, almost black wainscoting. Artificial lighting fixtures are pendant electo-candelabra…
The tap-room, stretching across the rear of the first floor is a quaint affair. Beer and water taps protrude from the wall in one corner. Colonial barn lanterns that throw the light against the wall, reflect by day a bit of the somber-cheerful color of the room by night…
A distinctive touch is the insertion in the diamond-paned windows of the room of the seals of the six colleges of Oxford, in color, carrying out the English idea in detail as in the building in general…
The lounge, probably the most popular room in the club is a masterpiece of its kind. It is colored brown, red and gold. An immense fireplace is set in one end wall. French doors in the front wall give a view all along on the loggia with its pleasant prospect of Fayette Park, the fountain and the traffic of West Onondaga Street.
Figured silk-shaded piano lamps, an immense oak center table, chairs to suit Sybarites and a service door, papered with the wall and revealing its presence only by a glass knob, give every evidence the lounge will be a land of comfort.
The veranda with its green chairs and tobacco stands will be a mecca for post-graduate Syracuse summer days to come…”
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