Metropolitan Club
This article is about the private social club in New York City. For the club and historic structure in Washington, D.C., see Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.). 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
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The Fifth Avenue facade of the Metropolitan Club | |
| Formation | 1891 |
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| Type | gentlemen's club |
| Headquarters | 1-11 East 60th Street |
| Location | |
Region served | New York City and the surrounding region |
| Website | http://www.metropolitanclubnyc.org |
60th Street entrance
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 Kissam Vanderbilt and James A. Roosevelt. Its 1894 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 II signed for the club.
The Metropolitan Club is no longer a male-only club.[1]
Notable members
- Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert (1861–1952), architect
- Charles H. Tenney (1842–1919), merchant and banker
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899), industrialist, philanthropist, and founding member
- Edward Eugene Loomis (1864-1937), railroad executive
- Frederick Townsend Martin (1849–1914), writer and advocate for the poor
- George G. Haven, Jr. (1866–1925), businessman and founding member
- J. P. Morgan (1837–1913), financier, banker, philanthropist, art collector, and the club's first president
- James A. Roosevelt (1825–1898), merchant and founding member
- James L. Holloway III (born 1922), United States Navy admiral and naval aviator
- James T. Woodward (1837–1910), banker
- Jerauld Wright (1898–1995), United States Navy admiral
- John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914), lawyer and founding member
- Larry Pressler (born 1942), Republican politician and the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the United States Senate
- Monte Waterbury (1876–1920), businessman, polo player, and founding member
- Pippa Malmgren (born 1962), politics and policy expert
- Ray Price (born 1930), chief speechwriter of President Richard Nixon
- Robert Goelet (1841–1899), real estate developer and founding member
- Robert Maclay (1834–1898), merchant, business executive, and civic activist
- Robert Winthrop (1833–1892), banker
- Spruille Braden (1894–1978), diplomat, businessman, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and past president
- Walter Eli Clark (1869–1950), journalist and newspaper publisher
- Walter J. Cummings, Jr. (1916–1999), United States Solicitor General and federal judge
- William Astor Chanler (1867–1934), soldier, explorer, and United States Representative
- William Collins Whitney (1841–1904), United States Secretary of the Navy, financier, and founding member
- William Dawes Miller (c. 1918–1993), engineer and past president
- William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920), horse breeder and founding member
- Woodbury Kane (1859–1905), yachtsman and member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders
See also
References
- Notes
- ↑ Wilson, James Grant (1893). The Memorial History of the City of New York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892 (PDF). New York History Co. p. 293.
- Bibliography
- Porzelt, Paul (1982). The Metropolitan Club of New York. Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 978-0-8478-0423-8.
External links
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