The Women's City Club was founded January 4th, 1924 by the presidents of the various women’s organizations of Grand Rapids with the help from the president of the Women's City Club of Detroit. Some of the women's organizations included the League of Women Voters, Zonta Club, Altrusa Club, and the Women's University Club. November 14th, 1923, twenty-one women from these organizations met for tea at the Peninsular Club where they could discuss the possibility of finding a more permanent headquarters for the many homeless women's organizations, and from then on, the organization was formed.

The Women's City Club became a private social club where women of the city could meet socially and enjoy the companionship of other women whose work and interests were varied, and would then together further the good life in Grand Rapids. By 1924 there were nineteen clubs who were in relation with the club and by June of 1924 there were 800 members. For the first year the Morton Hotel housed the club meetings, but as it soon became clear that the two rooms that were given to the club would not be able to hold the ever growing members, the officers made the decision to purchase their own home in November of 1924; the Silas Godfrey Home.

Over the years membership grew by the hundreds and by 1929 there were 1,800 members. Because of the growing membership it became evident that the Silas Godfrey Home was still not large enough to house the large amount of members, which prompted the club officials to purchase a new home in 1927, called the Sweet House, which is still the home of the Women's City Club.

With the ever growing membership, the programs began to expand. Members could attend educational and cultural programs, style shows, concerts, bus trips, health and lifestyle programs, book reviews, travelogue/arm chair cruises, and a variety of classes. Members can also reserve a space at the clubhouse for private events at no charge during club hours, have lunch in the elegant Desdemona's dining room, and can borrow books from the Edith Spindler Library. Some individual possible usages of the building could include birthday parties, anniversary parties, reunions, special events, rehearsal dinners, weddings, and dances.