THE DREYFUSS CLUB IS NO MORE
View Dreyfuss Club After-the-Fire Photos

The Dreyfuss Club is no more. According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, early on the morning of Monday, October 23, 2006, Dallas firefighters found the 70-year-old building engulfed in flames. They were unable to save it. This photo, taken the following day, shows the ruins of a structure that held happy memories for several generations of Dallasites. View more after-the-fire photos.

The Dreyfuss Club as it was.

This recreation building was built in 1936, at a cost of $6,000, as a private clubhouse for the employees of the late Sol Dreyfuss, a prominent downtown Dallas clothing retailer (Dreyfuss & Son). Today the structure is owned by the City of Dallas, which rents it out for parties and other functions. The small hillock on which it stands is named for Dreyfuss as well. Although the view is not quite as commanding as that afforded by Winfrey Point, it is a good spot nonetheless from which to survey the lake and its environs. A pleasant, shaded picnic area is located almost immediately to the rear of the recreation building.

A bronze plaque, attached to the stone wall that surrounds the hill on which the clubhouse sits, provides evidence of the high esteem in which Sol Drefuss was held. It tells park visitors that in April 1968, "the Dallas Park Board named this point as a tribute to Sol Dreyfuss, 1885-1951, who loved Dallas and whom all Dallas loved" and that the plaque was "placed here by his many friends."

On the lawn in front of the clubhouse, another bronze plaque (included in the slide show) records the presentation of a flagpole to the City of Dallas by the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs in 1964." However, the flagpole is gone and has been missing for quite some time. Does anyone know what happened to this flagpole?