The Women's Federation Club Rooms were built in 1902.  The first meeting was held in the club rooms in January of 1903.
    Mrs. Joseph B. Dibrell began a city federation of women's clubs, made up of the Seguin Shakespeare Club, the Village Improvement Society and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  By the effort of these clubs' members, the women's club rooms were built.
    Mr. C. F. Blumberg built the club rooms on the southwest corner of Crockett and Center Streets.
    Pictures of the club rooms were sent to the St. Louis Exposition and World Fair, 1903-1904, and were exhibited in the Texas Building there.
    In 1907, when the lease expired on the lot where the club room stood, the owner wanted to charge $60 a year instead of the original charge of $15.  Mrs. Dorothea Nolte  offered a lot free of charge on the southwest corner of River and Washington Streets.  The club rooms were moved to that lot in 1908 by Mr. John Goodrum at a cost of $90.
    The club rooms were moved to their present location  in 1937.
(From "The Early History of Women's Clubs in Seguin" by Willie Mae Weinert)

Published Oct 20, 1999 in the special Edition of the Seguin Enterprise Newspaper.