Eleven women founded the Woman's Club of Antioch in February, 1902, pledging to improve and beautify the town and to do any business that would promote the educational, industrial, benevolent, social, or political welfare of its members or the community at large. They spearheaded the first high school, first library, city park, paved streets, and municipal water-sewer system. This lot was purchased in 1904, and cardboard shingle sales for a dime built the permanent clubhouse in 1910. The building was leased as school rooms from 1920-22 and, renovated and enlarged, was otherwise occupied continuously by the Woman's Club of Antioch.