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On October 1, 1863, six U.S. Treasury Department officials met to discuss the creation of a social and literary club in Washington, D.C. [3] The Metropolitan Club officially organized twelve days later, with 43 members. [3] The first year, dues were $50. [2] On June 25, 1883, the club acquired a lot on the corner of H Street and 17th Streets ...
Reference no. 1020 [1] The Metropolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was founded as a gentlemen's club in March 1891 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by the financier John Pierpont Morgan. The clubhouse at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street was designed by McKim, Mead ...
Cosmos Club at Lafayette Square, c. 1921 725 Madison Place Cosmos Club on Lafayette Square Tayloe House Townsend House ballroom. From 1879 to 1882, the Cosmos Club met in rented rooms on the third floor in the Corcoran Building on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street NW in Washington, D.C. [8] [6] The club moved into a rented house at 23 Madison Place in Lafayette Square from 1883 ...
Metropolitan Club (San Francisco), a women's club in San Francisco, California, United States. Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.), a private club in Washington, D.C., United States. New York Metropolitans, a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in Manhattan, New York, United States.
The first Clubhouse was located at 1726 I Street, NW. On the evening of March 11, 1904, the first President elected was then Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, an active Club member. Later the Club moved into its new quarters, a brownstone at 930 Sixteenth Street, NW. The Club developed a most appropriate theme: "Enter all of ye who have a ...
Designated CP. October 22, 1974. July 21, 1978. Designated DCIHS. November 8, 1964. The Sulgrave Club is a private women's club located at 1801 Massachusetts Avenue NW on the east side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. The clubhouse is the former Beaux-Arts mansion on Embassy Row built for Herbert and Martha Blow Wadsworth and designed by ...
City Tavern Club. Cogswell Society. Congressional Club. Cosmos Club. List of Cosmos Club members.
The Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (HODCG) is a hereditary society composed of men and women who can prove their descent from a colonial-era governor. Founded in 1896 Miss Mary Cabell Richardson of Covington, Kentucky, the Order's mission is to "commemorate the services of those men who, prior to July 4, 1776, singly ...