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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.
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
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