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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]
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.
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.
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The Colony Club originally had meeting rooms in Berzelius Hall on the Sheffield campus. [3] [4] In 1898, the society built a house called The Colony; it was the residence of the senior members of Berzelius. [3] [2] Architects Henry Bacon and James Brite designed the Colonial Revival and Neoclassical brick residence on Hillside Avenue. [3]
In 1927, club members voted to move uptown, to a quieter and less crowded location. [3] They hired architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich—who had previously designed buildings for the Knickerbocker Club, the Brook Club, and the Colony Club—to design their new clubhouse. [4] The Union moved to its current location in 1933.