The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda was formed in 1926 and purchased a site at 525 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland, California. The club hired architects Charles F.B. Roeth and E. Geoffrey Bangs to design a clubhouse for their members, which was constructed between 1928 and 1929.
The resulting 47,000 square foot building features a stucco exterior and a squarish footprint with a one-story section behind it. It was constructed as a five-story structure including a partial basement and attic. While the exterior is finished in stucco, the interior spaces are designed in Chateauesque or Classical Revival styles.
The building includes an internal parking garage, with an additional one-story garage added to the rear in 1964. Formerly known as the Women's Athletic Club and the Bellevue Club Building, the name was changed to 'The Bellevue Club' in the 1990s. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
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Written by Kyle McLonely
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