Clark Memorial Clubhouse

Clarkdale was a planned company town, laid out by the copper baron William Andrews Clark to house the workers of his valley smelter, and it showed off the era's model of industrial living, with more electric ranges per capita than almost any town in the country. After Clark died in 1925 he left a hundred thousand dollars for a community clubhouse in his memory, designed by the Phoenix firm of Fitzhugh and Byron and finished under his sons and grandsons. Listed on the National Register in 1982, the clubhouse remains the civic centerpiece of the town Clark built.

What the plaque says

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982. Clarkdale was planned, owned, and developed by William A. Clark of Montana, owner of the United Verde Copper Company on Cleopatra Hill in Jerome. In 1911 Clark decided to change to an open-pit method, and because the smelter and railroad terminus at the top of the mine had to be relocated, the search for a new smelter site led to the founding of Clarkdale. The clubhouse was built as a memorial to Clark after his death in 1925, funded by his bequest of one hundred thousand dollars and designed by Fitzhugh and Byron of Phoenix.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tuzigoot — 1.6 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression
• Jerome — 3.6 mi
  The billion-dollar copper camp clinging to Cleopatra Hill — now the largest ghost town in America
• Montezuma Castle — 17 mi
  A five-story Sinagua cliff dwelling, misnamed for an emperor who was never here
• Sedona — 18 mi
  Red-rock skyline, Little Hollywood, and the town Sedona Schnebly gave her name to

More markers nearby

• United Verde Copper Company Smelter — steps away
• People of the Verde — 1.7 mi
• Jerome, Arizona — 3.3 mi
• The Audrey Shaft and UVX Operations — 3.4 mi