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The William Land Park Community Clubhouse is visible in this circa 1930 photograph. It was built with the remains of ranch buildings, including a hop kiln, on the Swanston-McDevitt tract at the time of the city’s purchase. In addition, an 8,000 dollar golf clubhouse was built in 1924 to serve a 75 acre, nine-hole course. At the operational level, the efforts and influences of Sacramento Superintendent of Parks Frederick Evans – who studied landscape architecture in Berlin, an urban hub of several large parks – were crucial in seeing the controversial golf course’s completion through. While the park’s beauty was unmistakable, it was Evans who pushed for the controversial golf course “…in accordance with his own belief that [the] park should be a place of recreation and of beauty, secondarily.”
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