Site of Warner Building

Phebe Warner's club work began with one of her husband's house calls. Early in the winter of 1903 Dr. Warner came home remarking that the area's women were not sick but homesick, and she declared she would "organize a club and give them something to think about." Her Wednesday Afternoon Club, mostly young mothers and teachers including Laura V. Hamner, met in members' homes, and by 1909 the idea had spread to rural communities. In 1913 the clubs united as the Armstrong County Federation of Women's Clubs, one of the first of its kind in the United States.

What the plaque says

Site of Warner Building Erected at this site in 1909 by civic leaders Dr. William A. (1864-1934) and Phebe K. (1866-1935) Warner, the Warner Building played an important role in Claude's development. Designed by the Amarillo architectural firm of Heckman and Hartley, the building housed Dr. Warner's medical office, the Warners' Gate City Drugstore, public rest rooms, a barber shop, the "Claude News" newspaper office, a public reading room, a lodge hall, and rental office space. After a fire destroyed the building in 1915, the Warners reopened their drugstore at another location.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gem Theatre — steps away
  Claude's small-town movie house of 1915, restored by the Armstrong County Museum and remembered for the scene in Hud where Homer and Lonnie Bannon sing along to Clementine.
• Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight Ranch State Historic Site — 11 mi
  The two-story house the Goodnights moved into on December 27, 1887, after leaving the JA, with a porch that looks over bison descended from the calves Mary Ann saved.
• Carson County Square House Museum — 16 mi
  The 1880s ranch cottage that is the oldest house in the town of Panhandle, at the heart of a twenty-one-building museum of the plains from mammoth hunters to the oil boom.
• Lighthouse Trail — 21 mi
  The park's most walked trail, 2.8 miles each way across the canyon floor to the Lighthouse, a hoodoo of Triassic sandstone balanced on a pedestal of softer red shale.

More markers nearby

• Charles Howard Roan — steps away
• Great Panhandle Indian Scare of 1891 — steps away
• Boy Scout Troop No. 17 — steps away
• Claude News — steps away