Metropolitan Club
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This article is about the elite social club in New York City. For the 19th century baseball team, see New York Metropolitans.
Coordinates: 40°45′53.5″N 73°58′20″W / 40.764861°N 73.97222°W
| The Metropolitan Club | |
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 The Fifth Avenue facade of the Metropolitan Club |
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| Formation | 1891 |
| Type | gentlemen's club |
| Headquarters | 1-11 East 60th Street |
| Location | New York, New York |
| Region served | New York City and the surrounding region |
| Website | http://www.metropolitanclubnyc.org |
The Metropolitan Club is a private social club in New York City. It was formed in 1891 by J.P. Morgan, who served as its first president. Other original members of the club included William K. Vanderbilt and James Roosevelt. Its 1912 clubhouse, designed by Stanford White, stands at 1-11 East 60th Street, on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue. The land on which the Clubhouse stands — 100 feet fronting on Fifth Avenue and 200 feet on 60th Street — was acquired from the Duchess of Marlborough who signed the purchase agreement in the United States Consulate in London. Cornelius Vanderbilt signed for the club.
The Metropolitan Club is no longer a male-only club.[1]
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[edit] Notable members, past and present
- John L. Cadwalader — founding member
- Walter Eli Clark
- Walter J. Cummings, Jr.
- C. P. H. Gilbert
- Robert Goelet — founding member
- James L. Holloway III
- George G. Haven, Jr. — founding member
- Woodbury Kane
- Robert Maclay
- Philippa Malmgren
- Frederick Townsend Martin
- William Dawes Miller — past president
- J.P. Morgan — The club's first president
- Larry Pressler
- Ray Price
- James Roosevelt — founding member
- Charles H. Tenney
- Cornelius Vanderbilt — founding member
- William K. Vanderbilt — founding member
- James Montaudevert Waterbury, Jr. — founding member
- William Collins Whitney — founding member
- Robert Winthrop
- James T. Woodward
- Jerauld Wright
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ Wilson, James Grant (1893). The Memorial History of the City of New York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892. New York History Co.. pp. 293. http://books.google.com/books/pdf/The_Memorial_History_of_the_City_of_New_.pdf?id=A1QOAAAAIAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U3u-0xLIaRomTLK-56Ph7Sps1dKfg&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0.
- Bibliography
- Porzelt, Paul (1982). The Metropolitan Club of New York. Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 9780847804238.
[edit] External links
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