The Santa Fe Woman’s Club & Library Association (SFWC&LA), formed in 1892, provides civic, educational, philanthropic, and library support to the City of Santa Fe and its people. The mission statement is “To serve women and children focusing on scholarship, literacy, cultural enrichment and well-being while forming lasting friendships.”
The current SFWC&LA evolved from the Benevolent Association and Woman’s Board of Trade with the purpose of making civic improvements and establishing a library. Over the club’s long history, SFWC&LA was “Guardian of the Plaza,” opened the first library and reading room, and maintained the Fairview Cemetery.
SFWC&LA was named a Santa Fe Living Treasure in 2003. Living Treasures called the Club “one of this community’s most enduring, most effective, most generous, most visionary, most far-reaching, and most significant civic-minded organizations.”
To further support its philanthropic mission, the SFWC&LA rents its spacious air-conditioned clubhouse to groups and private parties at reasonable rates for one-time and long-term repeated usage. The venue includes 1) a multi-purpose meeting room (approximately 2,300 square feet) with adjacent large kitchen and 2) a separate auditorium that seats 150 people. For information on rentals visit our “Venues for Rent” page.
Please call 505-983-9455 to contact the Rentals Coordinator about renting the Club’s Main Room or Auditorium.