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A country club is a privately-owned club, [1] often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
1920 cartoon of The Arts Club, a private members' club founded in London by Charles Dickens. Private members' clubs are organisations which provide social and other facilities to members who typically pay a membership fee for access and use. Most are owned and controlled by their members even to this day.
A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden" – has been named one of "America's 11 Most ...
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]
Winged Foot Golf Club is a private golf club in the Northeastern United States, located in Mamaroneck, New York, a suburb northeast of New York City. The club was founded in 1921, by a group largely made up of members of The New York Athletic Club, and opened in June 1923. Winged Foot's name and logo are taken directly from a sculpture in the ...
In 2013, the Garden City Golf Club was ranked 26th overall in Golf Magazine ' s list of the Top 100 Courses in the U.S., 47th in Golf Magazine ' s list of the Top 100 Courses in the World, 55th in Golf Digest ' s list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses, and 9th among Golf Digest's golf courses in New York City. [12] [13] [14]
According to its charter, the purpose of the club is "to promote the pleasure, kind feeling and general culture of its members." [ 2 ] Harry C. Stockdell was the club's first president. He was succeeded in 1884 by Robert J. Lowry ; and in 1885 Livingston Mims began the longest term as president, serving, with a two-year interruption, from 1886 ...