Finding Aid to the Piedmont Club Papers

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
PIEDMONT CLUB PAPERS
The collection includes a visitors' register, printed bylaws, membership lists, minutes
of meetings, and treasurer's account books. Also included are notes on the history of the
Club, compiled by Luther E. CAUDILL, Jr., as well as a menu cover designed by
CAUDILL.
BOX 1

BOX 2

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6

Officers and Members, Constitution, By-laws
Membership lists
Minutes (Board of Governors) (1890-1905)
Minutes (1905-1914)
Miscellaneous Minutes and Notes
Scrapbook and Notes (1890-1982) (CAUDILL)

Visitor's Register (1890-1928)

BOX 3

3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4

Menu Jacket (1982) (CAUDILL)
Minutes (1912-1927)
Members (1903-1909)
Members (1911-1915)

BOX 4

4-1 Treasurer's Accounts (1916-1928)
4-2 Treasurer's Accounts (1911-1914)

BOX 5

5-1 Account Book (1916-1928)
5-2 Account Book (1902-1905)

BOX 6

6-1 Ledger (1918-1928)
6-2 Ledger (1924-1928)

MS1113

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
PIEDMONT CLUB (1890-1928)
The Piedmont Club was incorporated 19 August 1890 as a private gentleman's club in
Lynchburg, Virginia. Organized "for the promotion of social intercourse and for the
purpose of maintaining a library, reading rooms, pleasure rooms, etc", the corporation
could not hold more than five acres of property at any one time and its capital stock was
limited to "five thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each."
Rules for members included no whistling or singing in the Club House, no loud
conversation, no dogs, no sleeping on any sofas, and no placing of feet on any article of
furniture. Gentlemen members were not to "appear in the parlors or reading-rooms
without a coat on."
The building housing the permanent headquarters of the Club, at 1001 Church Street,
was constructed ca. 1902 by the local architectural firm of FRYE and CHESTERMAN.
In 1928, realizing that declining membership had resulted in the Club being "no longer
self-sustaining," the Board of Governors appointed a committee "to arrange for the sale
of the Club property and the liquidation of its indebtedness." The City of Lynchburg
agreed to purchase the property for $39,000 and to purchase the furniture, fixtures, and
equipment for $1,000. The building was used as an annex to City Hall until it was razed
in 1957.
[Piedmont Club Papers, Mss., MS1113, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

MS1113

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Title

Finding Aid to the Piedmont Club Papers

Subject

finding aids
Piedmont Club (Lynchburg, Va.)
Records (Documents)

Description

Finding aid to the Piedmont Club Papers held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia

Creator

George M. Jones Memorial Library

Publisher

George M. Jones Memorial Library

Date

2023

Rights

George M. Jones Memorial Library

Format

PDF file

Language

English

Identifier

MS1113FA

Citation

George M. Jones Memorial Library, “Finding Aid to the Piedmont Club Papers,” Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://digitaljones.omeka.net/items/show/129.