Club moves from Butler estate in 1892 and changes its name to Fox Meadow Tennis Club

Around 1892 the Club moved close to its present location, to a site just off Church Lane on land then owned by the Pophams and loaned to the Club by Lewis Popham¹. At the new location, members played on four dirt courts.

The Club changed its name to Fox Meadow Tennis Club about the time it shifted to the Popham land. However, even after the turn of the century, newspapers continued to refer to the Scarsdale Lawn Tennis Club.

In the Club’s first two decades, the community around it began to change appreciably. The trolley arrived with great fanfare on the Post Road in 1895; the town hired its first policeman in 1908; and the town’s first store, the Scarsdale Supply Company, opened for business in 1912.

Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years,/em>, 1983

Note 1: Emily O. Butler, daughter of Charles Butler acquired the property in 1911 and leased it back to the club