Organized on April 18, 1889, the Saginaw Club was made up of many of Saginaw's leading business and civic figures. One of its first undertakings was preparing for a club house, with architect W.T. Cooper furnishing plans and ground broken on July 1, 1889. Praised as a monument to enterprise, sagacity, and liberality, the club house opened on May 29, 1890, with a full-dress ball attended by 800 guests. Only slightly modified from its original design, the Saginaw Club has graced the town's main street for over eighty years.