Pledges help keep our Club moving forward. Colonel Edward A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering founded The Engineers Club of Dayton in 1914. As the original clubhouse grew snug, Deeds and Kettering bought the 110 Monument Avenue property. They sent out a search team to check out the architecture of other clubs in the United States. Unsatisfied, they sought inspiration in the great clubs of England.

On Feb. 2, 1918, Deeds and Kettering presented a new clubhouse to the growing organization. Orville Wright accepted the keys on behalf of the now 300 members.

Deeds and Kettering paid for the building themselves in excess of $300,000 and subsidized its maintenance and operations for the first decade. By then membership had grown to the point that the club could be self-sufficient.