Fox Meadow adds more courts

FMTC property in 1943, showing land purchased and also leased from Hazel B. McClintock

The Club built additional courts on land it leased from the Crane heirs in 1938 for $150 a year. The site was a 40′ x 250′ strip of land running along the Club’s southern boundary. Although the Cranes had begun to sell parts of the estate, efforts to buy the property outright stalled.

(Note: In 1943, Hazel Barton McClintock bought a twenty-five acre parcel from the Crane heirs, and she agreed to sell the Club nearly all the land on which it already had paddle courts, approximately three-fourths of an acre, for $4,200. One paddle court still lapped over onto McClintock’s property, but she permitted the Club to leave it in place.)

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