Meet the Founder

The Club Room grew from a lifelong love of beautiful homes, meaningful gatherings, and the kinds of conversations that make time slip away unnoticed.

Founder Jenny Bruce is a fifth-generation resident of Woodland, Minnesota, with deep roots in the Lake Minnetonka community. For more than 26 years, she has worked in luxury real estate, helping families navigate some of life’s biggest transitions with warmth, intuition, and an eye for how people truly live and gather. She currently serves as acting Dean of Admissions at Providence Academy, where her work centers around community-building, relationship building, community cultivation, and creating deeply personal experiences for prospective families.

Jenny is known for never forgetting a face, a story, or the small details that make people feel remembered.

Jenny’s love of needlepoint began as a young girl, learning alongside her grandmother Ruthie, who grew up in Woodland when Minneapolis still a long-distance phone call away. Ruthie had taught Jenny’s mother, Julie, to needlepoint years before, and the tradition eventually found its way to Jenny as well. What began on family vacations in Florida and along the north shore of Lake Superior has now become a multigenerational ritual shared with Jenny’s own daughters, Libby and Betsy.

More recently, she fell hard for mahjong, drawn not only to the strategy of the game, but to the laughter, rituals, gorgeous tables, and new friendships that form around the table.

Now nearing an empty nest, with both daughters headed to college, Jenny understands the value of having places outside the home to gather, recharge, laugh, and reconnect. As much as she treasures family life, she’s fairly certain there really is such a thing as too much together time, and that absence does, in fact, make the heart grow fonder.

The Club Room was created to bring all of those worlds together: gracious hosting, layered homes, enduring traditions, thoughtful design, and the simple joy of spending unhurried time with interesting women.

Where together feels sacred again.

Thoughtfully designed. Quietly social.