Clarkston Woman’s Club

The Clarkston Woman’s Club was built in 1913 and is the third oldest Woman’s Club building in the state of Georgia. The land was given to the club by the Clarkston School Board which had been given the land by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company in 1894. The Club House, built in the center of town, was the first one in Dekalb County to be owned by a Woman’s group.

The Clarkston Woman’s Club had its beginning in the Progressive Arts Circle, a study club formed in 1902. In 1912 the Circle changed its name to Clarkston Civic Circle for the purpose of establishing a library. I n 1913 it joined the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs and in 1955 a new charter was obtained under the name, Clarkston Woman’s Club.

The Club House is covered with brown siding and features diamond-paned windows so popular in bungalow construction in the early 1900’s. A fieldstone fireplace and antique piano and library tables are features here as is a stained glass window.

Clarkston women have shared their building which, in time of need, has been used for school classes, Sunday school classes and as a meeting facility for many community and civic organizations. Now, no longer an active Woman’s Club, in the early 1990s the building was offered to the City of Clarkston as a historic landmark which can now be rented for small social events.