Tiger Inn in 1899
These early iterations of Ivy and Cottage both evoke the kind of "cottages" then fashionable with the upper classes for country houses or resorts. They were pleasant, comfortable, but not particularly lavish structures, and this style was also not very expensive -- important for organizations of limited financial means.
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Source: Bric-a-Brac, 1899, p.158
Tiger Inn also looked to "domestic" architectural models with the erection of its mock- Tudor clubhouse, started in 1893. Copied from a 15th- century English inn, Tiger is the first club building to draw on explicitly "English" models, and for this reason Tiger is often grouped with the later generation of more formal, English- inspired clubs.