Constructed in 1923 as the clubhouse for the Ojai Valley Country Club, this building was designed by Pasadena architect Wallace Neff for Edward Drummond Libbey's 200-acre golf club and served as a lounge and dining room for club members and living quarters for the manager until a hotel was added in 1934. Libbey, a wealthy glass manufacturer from Toledo, Ohio, was one of several affluent Eastern industrialists who built winter homes in the valley after the turn of the last century, but his influence on the community, then known as Nordhoff, was exceptional. In 1917, he remade the town as Ojai by hiring Frank Mead and Richard Requa of San Diego to unify the town center in a Mission Revival architectural theme, one of many major developments he promoted in the Ojai Valley. Designed in a Spanish Revival style, the building won Neff an Honor Award from the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1923, and the later hotel underwent successive expansions that evolved into today's Ojai Valley Inn & Spa.