PALMER WOODS DINNER DANCE 2009
(there will be no Dinner Dance in 2010)
On Friday, April 17, 2009, the fabulous Bill Meyer Group performed at
the Historic Albert Kahn-designed Detroit Golf Club for the Palmer Woods Dinner Dance. Children were welcome to this event, and we presented the talents of several young musicians and singers during the evening. Palmer Woods will not be presenting a dinner dance in 2010.
It was an evening of dancing, socializing, a delicious buffet and jazzy-soulful-rhythm and blues-dance-your-shoes-off music, all in the aura of a classy, historic Detroit Golf Club, down the street from Palmer Woods.
We celebrated Spring with friends, family, business associates, and neighbors who all appreciated the wonderful evening in one of Detroit's architectural treasures. This event was open to the public.
DETROIT GOLF CLUB
In late 1916, the Board of Directors of the Detroit Golf Club authorized an expenditure of $375,000 to build and furnish a new clubhouse. Early the following year construction began. Unfortunately, the expansion of World War I interfered with the project. Along with transportation delays, shipments of vital materials were sometimes mislaid and lost. Although wartime problems hampered construction, the clubhouse was completed in May 1918. Designed by architectural giant Albert Kahn, the building has become a treasured 77,000 square feet landmark.
Irreplaceable best describes the Detroit Golf Club’s rambling Old-English style clubhouse with its sweeping wings, wide corridors, pervasive floor to ceiling multi-paned windows and doors, terraces and patios. The expansive grand ballroom and dining hall are complemented by intimate areas inside and out. An inner courtyard and fountain greet you as you enter the front lobby, and to the left a cozy paneled library, complete with fireplace and welcoming seating, provides a comfortable spot to wait for guests.
Fine and distinctive materials, combined with superb craftsmanship, characterize the building, which includes Kahn’s trademark: a magnificent red-tiled roof.
Additionally, the clubhouse is aglow with light marble floors, extensive use of wood on the floors and walls, large panes of beveled mirrors, a multitude of diverse chandeliers and hanging light fixtures, numerous fireplaces, and a variety of carved moldings and beams on the high ceilings. Graceful hallways, often walled with windows, lead from conference room, to dining spaces, to the bar, to additional rooms for business and pleasure. In 1965 the entrance, foyer and corridors were redesigned, re-carpeted and redecorated. In 1995 a $5.6 million renovation continued to modernized the elegant structure, including updated heating and plumbing. Two 18-hole Donald Ross golf courses, as well as swimming pools, tennis courts and exercise facilities, also grace this superb facility
