Membership in the Austin Woman's Club is open to all women (without regard to race, creed, or color) who support and will actively pursue the mission of the Austin Woman’s Club.
Our Mission
The Austin Woman’s Club is organized and operated for the benefit of the community and the public through conduct and support of educational and charitable activities and programs for women, including the study of literary, civic, patriotic, artistic and cultural subjects; the appreciation, restoration and preservation of important landmarks of the community’s historical and architectural heritage, including the North-Evans Chateau; and other educational, civic, cultural and social activities that improve conditions and opportunities for women, provide a means for women to engage in philanthropic service, encourage leadership, and advance the spirit of service and understanding, all so as to enhance the quality of life in the Austin community.
Organized December 13, 1928
The Austin Woman's Club is woman-owned nonprofit organized to support the historic Chateau Bellevue.
Chateau Bellevue Celebrates 150 years
Chateau Bellevue, the home of the Austin Woman's Club, is celebrating 150 years.
Good Day Austin's Adaleigh Rowe sits down with former club president Sara Jane Cantwell to talk about some of the events coming up to celebrate.
Click below to see the entire interview.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
10:00-1:00
Mahjong! | Bridge! | Canasta! | Mexican Train! !
Bring your games and some gal pals for some fun at the Chateau!
Menu
Spinach Salad (served on tables)
Buffet:
Chicken Salad Cups
Small Croissants
Caprese Toothpicks
Dessert:
Fruit salad
Assorted cookies
Thursday, May 7, 2025
11:30 - 1:00
Grace Jones of Salado
A Biography by
Mary Margaret Quadlander
Grace-Jones-of-Salado....say it like it was all one word. Her improbable rise to success is story enough; a country girl reared in the rural community of Smithville, Texas, leaves her home to join the legendary WASP to fly and deliver fighter planes during World War II; next, Grace takes an inconceivable step by becoming a famous runway fashion model in New York; then marries well known ace fighter pilot, Lt. Col. Curran "Jack" Jones; is the first American woman allowed to perform the highly regarded "Japanese Tea Ceremony" in public; and finally begins the second half of her well spent life by bringing the world of haute couture to the front doors of her famous namesake store, "Grace Jones of Salado". Her customers included Loretta Young, Liz Carpenter, Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Gene Tierney, Jane Sibley, Mrs. Kissinger, Joan Brashear, Erma Bombeck, and Carolyn Farb. Many of these women had the pleasure to work with such top designers as Geoffrey Beene, Jean Louis, Count Sarmi, Pauline Trigere, Adolfo, Vollbracht, and St. Laurent. With barely a flick of her gold bangled-wrist, Grace seemed to fluidly move from one success story after another.
The History of the Austin Woman's Club
taken from the Original1929 AWC Yearbook
Home of the Austin Woman's Club
"The charming and distinctive edifice acquired in November 1929, as a home by the Austin Woman's Club demands, because of its interesting history and its architectural beauty, attention and comment in the first year book of the Austin Woman's Club.
This building, located at Eighth and San Antonio Streets, crowns in a lordly way a steep hill which falls precipitately to the west. The eastward looking facade with its carved stone ornamentation presents on San Antonio Street an entrance of characteristic dignity; and, though this part of the building rises but two stories, the castle-like structure follows in the rear the westward slope of the hill toward Nueces Street, resting on terraces to the south at four levels, and buttressed to the north and west with pillars and ivy-covered walls of solid stone.
At each terrace, beautiful stone porches on the south lead upon velvety lawns that are connected by winding stone steps until the foundation level is reached; and here a magnificent live oak of ancient days throws its luxurious shade to a spread of some eighty-three feet.
From the upper porches a view of purpling hills in the distance, of the wooded banks of the Colorado, the fairy foliage of the grand old tree on the lawn well merits the name of Belleview which was given the house by its first builders.
