Woman's Club of Fort Worth

The club's founding gift came with strings. Wikipedia reports that Etta Newby's deed for the house on Pennsylvania Avenue limited its use to White women and banned drinking, smoking and gambling, and the smoking rule drew the only open argument. In 1931 the club started a radio show on KFJZ, which Wikipedia calls the first by a woman's club in Texas, and took over managing the Fort Worth Symphony until 1938. It began its Texas library in 1932, now a collection of rare books and Texana. The complex was listed on the National Register in 2017.

What the plaque says

Woman's Club of Fort Worth Women from eleven social and study groups, some formed before 1900, joined in 1923 to create the Woman's Club of Fort Worth. Miss Anna Shelton, who led the unification drive, served as the first President of the club. The charter members first met in a house donated by Etta O. (Mrs. William G.) Newby. As the club grew, it acquired other buildings. The organization performs many civic, charitable, and educational activities and maintains a Texana library collection. Membership in 1975 totaled about 3000. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 1.3 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 1.6 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 1.7 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 3.5 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• Masonic Temple of Fort Worth — 0.6 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth — 0.7 mi
• Broadway Baptist Church of Ft. Worth — 0.7 mi
• Beth-el Congregation — 0.7 mi