Description: VERY RARE HISTORIC SYRACUSE CHINA SAMPLE PLATE For DALLAS CLUB Texas 1914 !! Click images to enlarge Description Item: We have a Rare, One of a Kind Sample Service Plate by Syracuse China (OPCO) for the Dallas Club, once located in Dallas, Texas! This a rare plate that came directly from the Syracuse China archives when the company closed. The plate has the "Sample # 3727" marked on the front. It is also marked "Huey Phillips Hdw Co," but at this point, we have not figured out the connection. From dallasgateway: "DALLAS IS KNOWN throughout the United States for the multitude of plush private clubs in the downtown district, some of them located on top of the city’s highest buildings with commanding views of the community. But the first, and one of the most imposing of all, was the old Dallas Club, a landmark that stood for nearly half a century on the northwest corner of Commerce and Poydras. It is recalled by Manning B. Shannon as being an outstanding example of the architectural elegance that befell Dallas during the “Enterprising Eighties.” Mr. Shannon, who celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday August 2, 1966, was only fifteen years old when the club was organized in 1887. Later as a young business and civic leader he served as a director and chairman of its house committee. He adds that its social activities were largely phased out by the time of World War I. The club was legally dissolved about 1922, although the building remained for several years more before being replaced by the present commercial structure on the site. The first of Dallas’s downtown clubs, the handsomely appointed four-story brick-and-stone clubhouse was long a focal point in the life of business, civic, and professional leaders of the city. Strictly a gentlemen’s club on a membership basis, it was graced on occasions by the presence of ladies, who were invited for special events such as receptions and parties for visiting dignitaries. Among the notables entertained there were Tennessee governors Bob and Alf Taylor; Texas’s Gov. Jim Hogg; Jay Gould, the railroad magnate; such stars of the stage as Frederick Warde, Henry Irving and Modjeska; and President Theodore Roosevelt. Completed in 1888 at a cost of $45,000, the clubhouse was of the same vintage as several other structures still standing, such as the First Baptist Church on North Ervay and “the stylish, stone-faced 4-story edifice” of the G. H. Schoellkopf Co. at Lamar and Jackson. The old red-stone-and-granite courthouse of today was built a year or so later than the Dallas Club, but the city already had its first fine city hall, completed in 1887 on the northwest corner of Commerce and Akard where the Adolphus Hotel has stood since 1910. Immediately adjoining the clubhouse on Poydras at Main was the three-story Knepfly Jewelry Company Building, still to be seen there. Both had unusual ground floorings of mosaic ceramic tile, a good sample of which remains in the Vincent Sea Food Restaurant now occupying a part of the old Knepfly Building. The main dining room of the Dallas Club was cooled by large electric ceiling fans, said to have been the first installed in Dallas. The Dallas Club was a logical accompaniment of the great economic and social surge of Dallas in the decade of the ’80s. It was a time of tremendous physical growth, the years that saw the rise and absorption of East Dallas and the start of Oak Cliff by T. L. Marsalis. Among key enterprises established in the period were the Merchants Exchange in its four-story home on the northeast corner of Commerce and Lamar (1884), the Dallas News at Commerce, Austin, and Lamar (1885), the State Fair of Texas (1886), and the location in Dallas of the State Farmers Alliance headquarters and its big-business enterprise, the Farmers Alliance Exchange ( 1887 ). The years 1887 and 1888 were spoken of as “two eventful years” in Dallas’s growth. Other important new concerns in 1887 included the Dallas Land and Loan Company, with paid-up capital of $500,000, and the Dallas Investment Company, $100,000 capital, headed by Edward II. Holmes of Kansas City. In 1888 Col, J. T. Trezevant’s Security Mortgage & Trust Company ( $400,000 capitalization) completed its towering six-story structure on the northeast corner of Main and Austin, now part of El Centro College of Dallas’s new junior college system. Other newcomers in the same two years were the Dallas Consolidated Street Railway Company, $500,000 capital, with Jules E. Schneider as president; the Dallas Cotton & Woolen Mills, $500,000 capitalization; Col. Frank P. Holland’s Texas Farm & Ranch Publishing Company; the Dallas Ice Factory; the Electric Light, Power and Manufacturing Company, headed by Seth Miller; and the Munger Improved Cotton Machine Manufacturing Company, with $100,000 capital, headed by James Moroney as president. Mr. Shannon recalls that upon the incorporation of the Dallas Club in 1887, W. L. Hall was its first president, with T. L. Camp, William Thompson, J. B. Adoue, Sr., Bennett Hill, and Charles Fred Tucker as directors. The clubhouse was strategically located in the developing downtown business district, the center of which was moving eastward from the courthouse and had extended across Austin and Lamar to include Poydras on its march toward Akard. At the time of the opening of the clubhouse in 1888, J. C. O’Connor, president of the City National Bank, was its head. He was also secretary-treasurer of the Dallas Gaslight Company, which still fueled the greater part of Dallas street lights, and an official of the Southern Mortgage & Trust Company. Other club officers and directors in that crucial second year included B. W. McCullough, general passenger agent for the Texas & Pacific; Alex Sanger; Thomas T. Holloway, attorney; L. A. Pires, listed simply and,rather grandly in the city directory as “capitalist”; C. E. Wellesley, general manager of the Texas Land and Mortgage Company, the large English and Scottish investment concern with Texas headquarters in Dallas. Also serving with O’Connor on the club board were George J. Dexter, special agent for the Western Assurance Company; J. P. Murphy of the pioneer realty firm of Murphy & Bolanz; L. R. Bergeron, cashier of the City National Bank; Eugene Sweeney, president of the Cockrell’s Fairland Addition, and Dr. H. L. McLauren, whose offices were on the third floor of the adjoining Knepfly Building. The Dallas Club maintained its primacy as Dallas approached the 100,000 population mark but gave way, Mr. Shannon recalled, to new centers as Dallas moved well into the present century. Today a spate of plush downtown clubs carry on the spirit of the old Dallas Club. The last time the old Dallas Club Building figured in the club life of the city was in the late 1920s during Prohibition. That was after the club itself had been dissolved. In a move to organize a press club in Dallas, a leading spirit was a public relations official. He had managed to get hold of a case of Canadian whiskey for ceremonial purposes in the organizational meeting called by him. The session was well attended by the working press of Dallas, but most of those present became so well “organized” in the spirit of the occasion that the main business of the meeting never came off. The project died a-borning. The present Press Club of Dallas was started years later without reference to the earlier session in the old Dallas Club Building. Courtesy Dallas Yesterday by Sam H. Acheson. Photo courtesy Dallas Rediscovered by William L. McDonald." Don't miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own this historic piece! Please check our other auctions for more vintage items including more Syracuse China! More neat stuff at our store! Size and Makeup: Plate: approx 9 3/4” in diameter. Made of ceramic. Condition: The plate comes exactly "as found." There is one clear hairline (about 11 o'clock) that is almost impossible to see unless you look very close. Otherwise no further chips or cracks. Looks like the gold along the outside edge was never finished. Nice color! Markings: Front: SAMPLE #3727, Dallas Club, Huey Phillips HDW Co. Back: OPCO Syracuse China. There is a number inside a diamond impressed into the plate (the number maybe 31). An EXCELLENT piece for the collector! 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Price: 89.95 USD
Location: Syracuse, New York
End Time: 2025-01-30T13:45:56.000Z
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