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The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City.Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs.
The 85th anniversary of the Colony Club is next year, but the warmth of the club’s president is available immediately. Meet Your Neighbor and president of the women’s club, Ann Rinehart.
These strikes in New York's garment industry immediately preceded the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. By 1921, Morgan's interest in women's employment and experience founding the Colony Club evolved into the American Woman's Association, where a working woman "with ambition, pluck and energy, which will push her up and up in her profession" could ...
The five oldest existing American clubs are the South River Club in South River, Maryland (c.1690/1700), the Schuylkill Fishing Company in Andalusia, Pennsylvania (1732), the Old Colony Club in Plymouth, Massachusetts (1769), the Philadelphia Club in Philadelphia (1834), and the Union Club of the City of New York in New York City (1836). [1]
The Camera Club of New York; Coaching Club of New York; Collectors Club of New York; Colony Club; Columbia University Club of New York; CORE Club; Cornell Club of New York; Cosmopolitan Club (New York City)
The Colony served liquor during prohibition, serving it in cups rather than glasses, and keeping its liquor in a service elevator where it could easily be moved, though Mayor Walker protected the restaurant from raids. [5] It was the first restaurant in New York to have air conditioning, which was installed in
Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman (July 21, 1870 – August 31, 1967) was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat. [1] " She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion."
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