Lancaster Tennis and Yacht Club

In 1943, the building that currently houses the Lancaster Tennis and Yacht Club at 2615 Columbia Ave was a barn on a working farm. That year a group of horsemen and women bought the twenty-acre farm and formed the Lancaster Riding Club. A few years earlier, in 1939, a group of tennis players had formed the Lancaster Tennis Club, building six clay courts on a site near Boas Fruit Market on Columbia Avenue. The newly formed Riding Club built a bar downstairs below the present dining room while... more