The Maywood Woman's Club, also known as the American Woman's League Building, located in Corning, Tehama County, California. The 1909 clubhouse was designed in

Bungalow style A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a bun ...

by St. Louis architects Helfensteller, Hirsch & Watson as a "chapter house" for the

American Woman's League The American Woman's League was created by the magazine publisher Edward Gardner Lewis in 1907. In part, it was a maneuver to lower History of United States postage rates, postal rates by appealing to educational and social opportunities that would ...

. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1992.

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