Metropolitan Club

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Formation 1891 Headquarters 1-11 East 60th Street		Type gentlemen's club 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 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.

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

References

Metropolitan Club Wikipedia

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