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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. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
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In the 1950s and '60s, there were around 300 women in the Colony Club, and they would collect around $20,000 to give to charities in the area. “Now we’re down to 45 members, and we give maybe ...
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]
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The Colony became the first establishment in the U.S. to serve Dom Pérignon champagne. [5] Sirio Maccioni was the bar captain at the Colony from 1960 to 1970. [5] Competitors of the Colony included the 21 Club, Delmonico's, Le Pavillon, Restaurant LaRue, and later the Four Seasons. [6]
The three women, known as "The Versailles Triumvirate" [5] hosted a salon in France and, in 1903, along with Florence Jaffray Harriman, helped organize the Colony Club, the first women's social club in New York City and, later, helped found the exclusive neighborhood of Sutton Place along Manhattan's East River.
The club was founded in January 1769, by Isaac Lothrop, Pelham Winslow, Thomas Lothrop, Thomas Mayhew, Elkanah Cushman, John Thomas, Edward Winslow, Jr. and John Watson. [2] Their intent in creating a private club was to avoid "the many disadvantages and inconveniences that arise from intermixing with the company at the taverns in ...