[1] It was built in 1915 as a pavilion for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and was relocated and reassembled in 1916 in the City of San Rafael to be used as a permanent clubhouse building the San Rafael Improvement Club, a civic organization founded in 1902.

The organization may or may not have defined itself as a women's club, but photos show that is what it was.

It was designed by William B. Faville in Classical Revival style.

[3] The only other building surviving from the 1915 exposition is the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts.

This article about a property in Marin County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.