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Organized 7 March 1925
A generation after the League, a single great club: the Fort Wayne Woman's Club — a different body from the Woman's Club League, and the two are not to be merged — was organized on 7 March 1925 under its founder, Mrs. John E. Moring, and incorporated on 31 July 1925. Its clubhouse stood at 402 West Wayne Street, and its new club home was dedicated on 9 March 1928. The club kept a Founder's Day on 15 January from 1931 in Mrs. Moring's honor. By the close of its twenty-fifth year it had 1,000 paid members, and its own annual announcements called it the largest federated club in Indiana — the claim is the club's, printed here as its own. Its yearbooks, published into the 1970s, record the standard architecture of the mature club movement: departments of art, literature, drama, music, home and garden, a collect for club women, and programs that made the clubhouse a second civic center for the city's women through the middle of the twentieth century. The club movement's other Fort Wayne names belong to the entries around this one: Addie L. Guldlin, who became a national figure in the home-economics work of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, is profiled in the People record.
Sources: The Fort Wayne Woman's Club, annual announcements 1960–61 and 1970–71 (Internet Archive) — organization and incorporation dates, the founder, the 402 West Wayne Street clubhouse, the 9 March 1928 dedication, the membership figure and the club's own largest-in-Indiana claim.