Editing Lake Elsinore, California (section)

====Country Club Heights====
[[File:S-l1600-285.jpg|thumb]] The Country Club Heights District is distinctly marked by the steep hillsides of the [[Clevelin Hills]], views of the lake and the city, and is a key part of Lake Elsinore's history. The issues mentioned above have presented development constraints for Country Club Heights since its historic beginnings dating back to 1912. The area was the target of an elaborate land scheme promoted in [[Los Angeles]]. The Mutual Benefit and Loan Society of Los Angeles acquired two pieces of dry, "hill-land" within a few miles north of "town-land" that the Press claimed was not worth ten cents an acre. The Mutual Benefit and Loan Society offered to give a {{convert|25|x|100|ft|adj=on}} lot to anyone who asked; however, the person receiving the lot had to pay ten dollars for a membership in the club, and one dollar per month dues for five years. In 1924, the Clevelin Realty Corporation, headed by Abe Corlin (President) and Henry Schultz (Treasurer-Secretary), began selling additional lots in Country Club Heights and launched a real estate sales promotion in the area. The Clevelin Hills took their name from this company.

Noteworthy sites in the Country Club Heights District include: the Schultz Mansion (now Bredlau Castle) and the Corlin Mansion, both built by the Corporation on the Clevelin Hills in 1926 for Henry Schultz and Abe Corlin, respectively, who had originated the Clevelin Realty development. The Bredlau castle is over {{convert|9000|sqft|abbr=on}}, and includes a hidden room with a sliding bookcase door that was used during [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]. These stately homes overlooking the lake were the site for many social gatherings. The winding roads of Country Club Heights are adorned with historic Marbelite lampposts, designed by Henry Barkschat.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEO1JBZjp84C&q=lakeshore+drive+lamp+posts+lake+elsinore&pg=PA10|title = Lake Elsinore|year = 2008| publisher=Arcadia |isbn = 9780738555881}}</ref> In 2007, the City of Lake Elsinore restored the historic lampposts along Lakeshore Drive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-lake-elsinore-lampposts-restored-2007may04-story.html|title=Lake Elsinore lampposts restored|date=May 4, 2007|newspaper=[[San Diego Union-Tribune]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref>

[[File:Aimeescastle.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Aimee's Castle]] In October 1928, [[Aimee Semple McPherson]], a renowned evangelist, commissioned Architect Edwin Dickman to design for her a palatial home in Country Club Heights, which has since won fame as "Aimee's Castle".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-lake-elsinore-aimees-castle-is-on-the-market-2010mar21-story.html|title=LAKE ELSINORE: "Aimee's Castle" is on the market|date=March 22, 2010|newspaper=[[San Diego Union-Tribune]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref> This is said to be a house born of Hollywood, inspired by Moorish architectural design. This home served as the evangelist's part-time home until 1939, when it passed to new ownership. After changing hands many times, in 2005, [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel]], the modern incarnation of McPherson's Foursquare Gospel, purchased and restored the property after years of neglect.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-home-20100509-story.html|title=Home of the Week: Sister Aimee's castle in Lake Elsinore|date=May 9, 2010|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lake-elsinore.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7290 City of Lake Elsinore General Plan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913081651/http://lake-elsinore.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7290 |date=September 13, 2013 }} Adopted December 13, 2011</ref>

[[File:Clevelin Country Club.jpg|thumb]] The Clevelin Country Club  (later known as the Lake Elsinore Country Club, The Spa Club and the Casino Del Elsinore) was built to be the main attraction of the Country Club Heights subdivision.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=http://www.lake-elsinore.org/home/showdocument?id=400 |title=Survey of Historical Structures and Sites Lake Elsinore California |publisher=Elsinore Valley Community Development Corporation |year=1991 |pages=51–52}}</ref> Prominent members of the club included Mrs. Wallace Reid, Marie Prevost, Reginald Denny, Jack Dempsey, Bert Lytell, Damon Runyon and Joe Stecher, for whom the streets were named.<ref>New Country Club Is Rising at Elsinore, San Bernardino County Sun, Wednesday May 5, 1926, Page 11</ref> This Spanish-Mediterranean Moorish accented architectural masterpiece had over 20,000 square feet of floor space and included a ballroom, banquet hall, sleeping quarters, and a tunnel system to hidden rooms. The Country Club closed during the depression, but reopened in 1951. It has closed again before 1981, at which point restoration work was being undertaken, but by 1990 the property was vacant and derelict.<ref name=":1" /> The Country Club succumbed to arson in 2001.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-fire-investigators-officially-list-arson-as-cause-2001feb15-story.html|title=Fire investigators officially list arson as cause of country club fire|date=February 15, 2001|newspaper=[[San Diego Union-Tribune]]|access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref>