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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 20 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 33301
- When was it listed? February 2019
- Category. building
- Also known as. Clubhouses of Florida's Woman's Clubs MPS
- Census division. Fort Lauderdale
- National Register reference number. 100003404 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1949 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club in 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DUMP ( 06) |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dania Pit | Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pegram Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Powerline Pit | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| State Road Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Bates Project | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Decker Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Deem Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gateway Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| State Road Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lauderdale, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1993: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Fort Lauderdale | 2 hurt, $500,000 | A small tornado hop-scotched along a 3-mile path in Fort Lauderdale causing extensive roof damage and broken windows to approximately 8 homes and an apartment complex. Several cars were damaged or destroyed by flying debris or falling trees. About one-third of the surface of the roof of a Broward County Public Library was ripped off. Windows in a nearby shopping center were blown out. Two minor injuries from flying glass were reported. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Lauderdale | $500,000 | Strong downburst wind gusts to 69 mph struck Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport flipping one small plane and damaging several hangers. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1949 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bryan Building | 0.2 miles | 1997 |
 | New River Inn | 0.3 miles | 1972 |
 | Stranahan House | 0.4 miles | 1973 |
 | St. Anthony School | 0.6 miles | 1997 |
 | Alfred and Olive Thorpe Lustron House | 0.7 miles | 2007 |
 | Williams House | 0.8 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003404 in Record Group 79. |
| Broward County | All 39 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.