The Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club homestead is done. Last week the club members had their first monthly Wednesday night dinner and meeting in the place, and accolades were passed around along with stuffed chicken dinners. Over 70 came and enjoyed a good time with a fire burning bright in the newly restored fireplace.

It was a year ago this month when the old facility was demolished. Nearly all of the building was rebuilt. Last spring, even the chimney and fireplace were rebuilt. The $260,000 building would have cost a lot more were it not for the contributions made by the membership, said club president Robert De Lisle of Edgartown. He estimates that $60,000 to $70,00 in services, materials and labor were donated.

The building footprint is the same, but the rooftop is pointed in a different direction, to allow for bigger windows. The redesign takes better advantage of the club’s view and close proximity to the shoreline of Sengekontacket Pond. Large windows and doors open up, allowing more of an exchange of air than in the old building. On a warm summer-like autumn day recently, a couple of men shot skeet just outside.

The interior ceiling is cathedral-style and more like a hunter’s clubhouse than the old. In the old building, fluorescent lights flickered in a low ceiling. The new ceiling is planked with wood. Collar ties 36 feet in length stretch across the main room; they came from a dismantled old factory on the mainland. Electric-lit chandeliers made from deer antlers that hunters donated light the interior of the club. The place looks resplendent.

Mr. De Lisle said many of the 460 members of the club came out to make sure the facility measured up. He said two ladies in their eighties donated seed money so the men’s and ladies’ rooms were done right. A third member of the club underwrote the rest of the costs, which included proper tiles and fixtures, making the rooms far more appealing than what the members remember of the old. He said the building of the bathrooms is but one example of the collaboration that has occurred over the past year.

To keep the dinners going last winter during construction, Mr. De Lisle said they had three dinners at the American Legion Hall in Edgartown.

Every winter, the club hosts fly-tying classes that begin in January; last year the club held the classes at The Anchors.

When the club members return this winter the fireplace will offer more heat than ever before. “It won’t smoke,” Mr. De Lisle said. A 65-inch flat screen television will be available for screening demonstrations.

The club is just two years from its centennial celebration, and it has welcomed a surge of interest with the new building. “We just got six new members, who saw the place,” Mr. De Lisle said.

Mr. De Lisle, club president for 10 years, said he likes to portray it as a sportsmen’s club, one that is open to all those who like the outdoors. The club is not just about holding a fishing rod and shooting a gun, he said, though that continues. There is archery, kayaking and canoeing at the site, too. He hopes to expand the outdoor programs to include a bocce court.

More information on the club can be found at its Web site, mvrodandgunclub.com, or at the club site on The Boulevard in Edgartown.