THE NEW CLUBHOUSE, 1978-1982
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In 1978, Highwood Estates began a major community project: a new
clubhouse. The supplied account places its completion around 1982.

The building gave residents a modern shared location for meetings,
fundraisers, celebrations, and other social events. After decades in
which collective action often centered on difficult questions--road
maintenance, sanitation, flooding, and costs--the clubhouse offered
a place where community could be practiced as something more than a
dispute.

Its importance was practical. Associations need rooms in which to
meet, organize, raise money, and keep records. Its importance was
also symbolic. A completed common building demonstrated that a
community assembled from subdivided lake lots could undertake and
finish a shared project.

Over the years, the clubhouse became a focal point for Highwood's
social life and a witness to routine acts of continuity: another
meeting, another fundraiser, another celebration, another group of
neighbors deciding what should happen next.


RESEARCH LEADS
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Association minutes, construction records, photographs, fundraising
notices, and recollections from participants could establish the
exact groundbreaking and completion dates, identify the people who
organized the project, and document changes to the building.