Here's a fun winter event to get you in the holiday spirit!
It’s Cool to be Kind! Join Random Acts Matter for a community Gingerbread House event. We invite families, businesses, and community organizations to sponsor and/or create gingerbread houses together. Please plan to attend and share this event with your social networks. For more information and to register, visit www.randomactsmatter.com.
Thank you, Bill Nelson - State Farm Insurance Agent for sponsoring this event!
10/18/2024
St. Charles Park District Comprehensive Master Plan was held at the Baker Community Center. Visit the St. Charles Park Districts’ website to share comments with us through this engagement period.
10/07/2024
Show up for some fun and meet some new friends. Families welcome!
08/15/2024
NEW FREE app available
08/13/2024
Sculptures in the Park also includes pieces in outdoor locations Mt. St. Mary Park. St. Charles parks with permanent sculptures are Baker Memorial Park, Lincoln Park, Pottawatomie Park, Delnor Woods Park and Fox Chase subdivision east entrance area.
07/30/2024
Thank you Leah and her groom to be for sharing these great photos of your Bridal shower here at the Baker Community Center
08/31/2023
We're thrilled to present the 2022 International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition winner, Julia Danielle, backed by the Jeremy Kahn Quartet, in her debut St. Charles Jazz Weekend performance! Julia Danielle is an up-and-coming vocalist, arranger, educator, and composer based in the heart of th...
05/12/2023
Looking forward to hosting this talented group of musicians. Get your tickets soon!
The Dean-Dorhauer Jazz Orchestra returns with a special performance featuring an arrangement of a song from every Beatles album. Hear classic Beatles songs done like you've never heard them on this magical mystery tour!
Join us at 7:30 PM, Saturday, May 20 at the Baker Community Center in downtown St. Charles as we conclude our Spring season of “Saturday Night Lights” concerts. If you attended the Dean-Dorhauer Jazz Orchestra’s “Wiz vs. Diz” concert last year, you know you’ll enjoy their unique treatments of favorite Beatles songs. Under the co-direction of Brett Dean and John Dorhauer, the band features some of the top jazz artists in the Chicago area.
Check out the new addition in the Baker Community Center garden
08/25/2022
Come check out some yummy local favorites on Sept 10 in Mt. St. Mary's Park while walking and enjoying some live music in the park! 21+ event. Get your tickets today! https://www.stcparks.org/events/
07/12/2022
Are you or someone you know looking for a Part time employment?
Baker Community Center is looking for Part Time Custodian.
Stop by to learn more about it.
06/07/2022
Girl Scout Troop shared a picture of all the fun they had dancing on the stage at Baker Community Center
03/02/2022
Special day for this couple to have their wedding ceremony on February 2, 2022 in the Peterson Lounge
01/21/2022
Did you know you can have your Wedding ceremony and reception all in one place at The Baker Community Center up to 60 attendees attendies
10/13/2021
The leaves are changing so is Baker Community Center lower level, picture updates coming soon.
08/10/2021
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“A center for wholesome recreation, social opportunity, and the promotion of all that makes for noble character and upright, active citizenship.” – Dedication Ceremony, May 1, 1926
The Henry Rockwell Baker Memorial Community Center, which has served St. Charles residents as a Community Center for more than 80 years, was a gift to the community from Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Baker. The building, which was dedicated in May of 1926, was conceived as a “living memorial” to their son, Henry Rockwell Baker, and to veterans of World War I. A bronze plate bearing the veterans’ names is located on an exterior wall adjacent to the main entrance.
The Edward J. Baker Foundation is a non-tax supported agency and receives its funding from a trust established by Mr. Baker, revenue received from room rentals, donations and investment interest.
The building was planned to be a central meeting place, a site for civic festivals, and municipal inaugurations and receptions, and a facility for educational, artistic, and recreational programs for the entire community. At the time of its dedication, the Center was called “a center for wholesome recreation, social opportunity, and the promotion of all that makes for noble character and upright, active citizenship.”
The Henry Rockwell Baker Memorial Community Center Board and the St. Charles Park District have worked together to implement the Baker family’s intent. In 1966, the BCC Board of Trustees signed an agreement with the Park District to provide office and recreation program space in exchange for management services, with each organization retaining its own separate identity and financial structure. This cooperation between the two agencies has benefited the community for the past 40 years.
Baker Community Center is a non-tax supported agency and receives a large portion of its funding from a trust that was established by Mr. Baker for the upkeep of the facility. Various improvements, remodeling, repairs, and redecorating have been made possible over the years by fund drives, gifts, interest on stocks and savings, rental income, and funds from the Baker Foundation. Major expenditures have been made for painting, carpeting, roofing work, electrical work, heating upgrading, new windows, new flooring and new furniture. To comply with provisions of the American with Disabilities Act, a ramp to the lower level was installed in 1992 on the east side of the building, and lower level restrooms were renovated
Baker Community Center houses the Park District’s administrative offices including its finance and marketing departments and STC Underground, the community’s teen center, which opened in January of 2001. Many community groups and local organizations use the building for meetings and classes. Participants in the Park District’s dance program practice weekly in the Collins Auditorium every spring and winter as they prepare for the annual dance recitals.
Originally, the basement housed a swimming pool with locker and shower facilities, three bowling alleys, and some game rooms. In the 1940s, various problems connected with the maintenance of the pool brought about its closing, and shortly thereafter it was abandoned altogether and covered over with three more bowling alleys. All of the alleys were removed prior to the completion of an earlier youth center – The Keg and The Roundabout – in the 1960s. Following the moving of the high school from the west side of town to the complex on Dunham Road, youth center activities in the Center tapered off and were replaced with senior activities that quickly became popular. Currently, the facility is used for meetings, bingo, auctions and other special programs. STC Underground, the teen center, has revived teen activities and uses the lower level space on a regular basis.
The Baker Board and the Park District look forward to continuing their partnership for many years to come.
