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The Commonwealth Club, is a private gentlemen's club in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Its present clubhouse was completed in 1891. Its present clubhouse was completed in 1891. The defining structure of the Commonwealth Club Historic District , it is located at 401 West Franklin Street.
Richmond German Society The Richmond German Christmas Dance is an annual ball held during the Christmas season at The Commonwealth Club in Richmond, Virginia . Founded in 1866, shortly after the end of the American Civil War , it is the oldest debutante ball in Virginia .
Treble Clef and Book Lovers' Club was established in 1908 by Mrs. Mary Simpson in Richmond, Virginia. The club predates nearly all of the cultural organizations in the country and is the oldest for African American women in Virginia. It is also one of the oldest book clubs of African American women in the United States.
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]
Bounded by 2nd St., northern limit of CSX right-of-way (now the northern limit of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority), historic property line and former stream courses. 37°33′05″N 77°25′46″W / 37.5514°N 77.4294°W / 37.5514; -77.4294 ( Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic
The club was founded in 1908, and its first clubhouse and Herbert Barker-designed golf course were completed in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood in 1910. Its James River Course, designed by William Flynn , opened in 1928; it has hosted many prominent events, including the 1955 and 1975 U.S. Amateurs and, since 2016, the annual Dominion ...
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The Navy League Club used it as a social club for sailors during the Second World War, and it later served as the offices for the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects Virginia Foundation for Architecture (now the Virginia Center for Architecture) and an antique book store — all which relocated in 2005 to Branch House on ...