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LOCATION
Address: 4200 Country Club Road South
City: Winter Haven
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33881
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Leisure & Sport
Status: Demolished

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1960
Site Area:
Floor Area:
Height: 18’-0”
Floors (Above Ground): 2
Building Cost: $300,000 (1960) including the pool and adjacent professional golf school

PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client:
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Associate Architect: Gene Leedy
Landscape:
Structural: Sidney Barker
MEP: Ebaugh & Goethe
QS/PM:

SUPPLIERS
Contractor:
Subcontractor(s):

Lake Region Yacht & Country Club

The project is for a country club to be located on a site that features a pool and 18-hole golf course. Future facilities for yachts are planned after a proposed canal linking the lake to the Gulf is completed.
The building is composed to two parallel two-story pavilions, each 128’-0” long by 21’-0” wide and 18’-0” high, standing within a peristyle of columns on 6’-8” centers. Between them is a large roofed hall of the same height, unbroken except by glass partitions and translucent curtains. The sides of the pavilions that face the central space are similar to the outer facades of the building, except for the omission of sun shades.
Despite varying ceiling and window heights according to the functions of different parts of the structure, the visual organization of the interior is strengthened by a uniform precast concrete coping that runs around all of the major spaces at a height of 11’-1 1/2” above the floor. The coping serves various purposes - supporting tracks for sliding doors and windows and frames for fixed glass and insect screens; a cornice between brick courses; a suspended curtain track. On all sides of interior spaces it includes a continuous metal light fixture.
The entrance to the building is under a cantilevered concrete canopy suspended at 7’-6” above floor level. The entrance is kept low to emphasize the space of the higher skylighted hall beyond.
The upper floors of the pavilions on either side of the central hall are reserved for mechanical spaces and an open porch on the building’s south side with a teenage clubroom located on the north side.
The building is demolished in 2013

““Standing on a man-made terrace at the edge of Lake Hamilton, the club has the composure of a classical temple. Uniform rows of white concrete columns and precast sunshades surround the structure on all sides, interrupted only at the entrance. Their repetitive forms dominate all views into and out of the building.””

— "Yacht and Country Club." Progressive Architecture 43 (July 1962): 124-127.