The named social clubs of 1907

1907 — one documented afterlife

At the size of the record: Howard's closing list names seven downtown social clubs — the Concord Club, the Indiana Club, the La Salle Club, the Per Se Club, the Bismarck Club, the Press Club, and the Country Club of the St. Joseph Valley, with the Sunnyside Golf Club beside them. The exception is the Indiana Club, which the record meets twice more: the Knights of Columbus made their early home in it, bowling in its basement lanes from 1946 (the Knights' entry above), and in the spring of 1964 the Notre Dame Club of the St. Joseph Valley held its testimonial dinner for Ed Healey at the Indiana Club, the university's alumni magazine reporting the night — the club still a going downtown room nearly sixty years after Howard's list. Whether the Country Club of the St. Joseph Valley of 1907 is an ancestor of the South Bend Country Club founded in 1916 is a natural guess the record reached does not make; the two names stand separately until a document joins them.

Sources:

1. Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. I (1907), p. 464 — the closing list of social clubs.
2. Today's Catholic, May 25, 2011 — the Indiana Club as the Knights' early home, with four basement bowling lanes.
3. Notre Dame Alumnus, August–September 1964 — the St. Joseph Valley club's Healey testimonial "at the Indiana Club."