Decline: 1911 to 1940s - Series Post #3

From the beginning the Club struggled financially.  The 1920s, followed by The Depression, exacerbated their economic stress.  By the 1930s, with lack of appropriate funding, the Clubhouse was seriously inadequate for its programming purposes.  Then, the Germantown neighborhood greatly changed post-World War II due to racial conflict and block-busting real estate tactics, and so the Clubhouse fell into decay.