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8.C. - Page 10 of 54 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation of the Redwood City Woman Club mature trees; and a replica of an El Camino Real mission bell on a steel post. Historic photographs reveal that the landscaping in front was entirely different in the club's early days. There was no driveway then, and the only tree was an oak tree at the sidewalk, which is no longer standing. The clubhouse of 1911 and the addition of 1939 As mentioned above, the building is one story in height and wood -framed in construction. The siding is wooden shingles above a base of overlapping clapboards. The building has a shallow -pitched pyramidal roof from which rises a large, front -gabled dormer. Knee braces lend visual support to this dormer at far left and right. The symmetrical main facade features a central porte cochere that fronts a recessed porch. The porte cochere is front -gabled, with plain bargeboard, exposed purlins with pointed ends, and exposed rafters with carved ends. Steel posts in front and square wooden posts to the rear support wooden trusses that in turn support the purlins and rafters of the porte cochere's roof. The posts at the front were once like those to the rear, but the wooden siding around the steel has been removed. To the right and left of the porch opening are wooden railings with wooden posts for balusters. The deck of the recessed porch is made of wooden planks, and the ceiling is made of v -groove siding. Windows in the front are large, with profiled wooden frames, fixed wooden sash, wooden sills, and transom bars. The glazing in the transom area is divided into small diamond- shaped lights by leading. The main entrance is filled by paired wooden doors that appear to be original. Each door is paneled with two isosceles trapezoids in the lower zone and glazing divided into four lights in the upper zone. The hardware is metal, plain in style, and also appears to be original. The south side of the building (at right) was built in three stages. The front 32 feet are original to 1911; the adjacent 39 feet to the east is a dining room that was added in 1939, filling in an ell; and the easternmost 20 feet, to the extreme rear, is an addition to the dining room that was designed in 1972 and built in 1973. Despite the wide range in construction dates this side of the building is consistent in its use of materials and in some of the details. The entire side is clad in wooden shingles over a clapboard base, and the eaves of the roof have exposed rafters with carved ends along the entire length. There is a difference in fenestration between the 1911 and the 1939 parts. The three windows closest to the street, in the 1911 part, have one -over -one double -hung wooden sash. Three windows in the 1939 addition are much wider. These have industrial steel sash set in wooden frames and look into the building's Dining Room. The outer parts of these steel windows open outward, while the inner parts are fixed. (A window in the 1973 addition is described separately below.) 3 534