{"id":49,"date":"2026-01-14T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:52:57","slug":"gallery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Photographs and articles of The Historic Indoor Tennis Court:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indoor Tennis Court Today:<br><em>Click thumbnails below to enlarge&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table width=\"420\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n  <tr>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_01_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_01_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_02_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_02_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_03_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_03_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_04_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_04_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n  <tr>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_05_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_05_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_06_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_06_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_07_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_07_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n\t\t<td><a href=\"\/images\/gallery_08_lg.jpg\" title=\"Click To View\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gallery_08_sm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>Historical Photos and Literature:<br><em>Click the links below to view images&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_journalspy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lyra Brown Nickerson and two other individuals arrested and held as Russian spies, by German authorities in Europe.<\/a>&nbsp;The Providence Journal August 19, 1914.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_societytennisball.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Tennis Ball&#8221; gala at the Indoor Tennis Court.<\/a>&nbsp;The Providence Journal, November 1, 1914 &#8220;Society&#8221; section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_lyrapic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A photo of Lyra Nickerson<\/a>, the first owner of the Indoor Tennis Court, published in The Providence Journal at the time of her death in 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_journalpic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lyra Brown Nickerson&#8217;s death notice.<\/a>&nbsp;The front page of &#8220;The Providence Daily Journal&#8221; August 31, 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_rwilsonpic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A photo of Robert Wilson<\/a>, manager of the Indoor Tennis Court, published by The Providence Journal at the time of his death in 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/history_chacearticle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indoor Tennis Court sold to Malcolm Chace.<\/a>&nbsp;Source, The Providence Journal, January 1917<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_chacecar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A photo believed to be of the Chace family,<\/a>&nbsp;in front of the Indoor Tennis Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_spaldingbook.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Tilden gives a lesson to &#8220;The Kid&#8221; at the Indoor Tennis Court.<\/a>&nbsp;From page 16 of Tilden&#8217;s own Spalding Athletic Library book entitled, Tennis for the Junior Player, the Club Player, the Expert, published by American Sports Publishing Company, New York, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/history_tildenpic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 1928 United States Davis Cup Team.<\/a>&nbsp;A photo of Bill Tilden, along with fellow members. The Providence Journal, 1928.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/gallery_courtinside.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A photograph of a double&#8217;s match at the Indoor Tennis Court<\/a>&nbsp;in August 1958 &#8211; players unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indoortenniscourt.com\/images\/history_chacearticle04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Providence Journal article about Malcolm Chace<\/a>&nbsp;in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Tennis Hall of Fame, published in July of 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs and articles of The Historic Indoor Tennis Court: The Indoor Tennis Court Today:Click thumbnails below to enlarge&#8230; Historical Photos and Literature:Click the links below to view images&#8230; Lyra Brown Nickerson and two other individuals arrested and held as Russian spies, by German authorities in Europe.&nbsp;The Providence Journal August 19, 1914. &#8220;Tennis Ball&#8221; gala at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indoortenniscourt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}