Washington Park Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, c1900. Carriages outside the Club House at Washington Park. The aims of the Washington Park Club, incorporated in 1883, were: 'to promote good fellowship among its members by providing a club house and pleasure grounds for their entertainment where at all times they may meet for social intercourse, and to encourage, by providing the proper facilities, raising, improving, breeding, training and exhibiting horses, at meetings to be held at stated times in each year.' From Scenic Marvels of the New World edited by Prof. Geo.R. Cromwell. [C.N.Greig & Co., c1900]