Building type
Private clubs and association buildings where social aspiration takes architectural form.
Private clubs and association buildings reflect the institutions that commissioned them. Compare their entrances, meeting spaces, and architectural styles with nearby houses and public buildings.
28 building histories
Clubhouse · 1905
120 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
When Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, designed this handsome Federal Eclectic building in 1905, his client was the Colony Club, the first women's organization in New York City to build itself a club house for...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1907-08
507 West Street, New York, NY
The American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute was constructed in 1907-08 to the handsome neo-Classical style design of architect William A. Boring. He was formerly a partner in Boring & [Edward L.]...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1889-91
7 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
The Century Association Building was designed by the firm of Gambrill & Richardson, whose partners were both members of the association and one of whom, Henry Hobson Richardson, went on to become one of this country's...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1924
131 West 55th Street, New York, NY
City Center/Mecca Temple, built in 1924 to house the functions of the Ancient Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (the Shriners) , has a significant place in the architectural and cultural history of New York City....
Read the storyClubhouse · 1898-99
243 East 34th Street, New York, NY
The elegant building of the Civic Club, now known as Estonian House, was designed in the French Beaux-Arts style by Thomas A. Gray. Erected in 1898-99, the Civic Club building was commissioned by Frederick Norton...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1905-07
32 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The Engineers’ Club was founded in 1888 at a time when professional engineering was becoming increasingly important to the industrial and economic development of the United States. While the city was well supplied with...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1869
111 East 15th Street, New York, NY
The Century Association Building was designed by the firm of Gambrill & Richardson, whose partners were both members of the association and one of whom, Henry Hobson Richardson, went on to become one of this country's...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1888-89
12 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
Designed by William C. Frohne and constructed in 1888-89, the German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (DeutscheAmerikanische Schützen Geseüschaft) is a rare, intact reminder of the important German immigrant...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1927-28
130 East 80th Street, New York, NY
Reflecting the Neo-Classic Style of Robert Adam, one of the foremost English architects of the Eighteenth Century, this formal residence of austere elegance is five stories high with basement and sub-basement. It is one...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1913-15
2 East 62nd Street, New York, NY
Recognized as one of the finest examples of the neo-Federal style in New York City, the Knickerbocker Club Building was built between 1913 and 1915 by the fashionable architectural firm of Delano & Aldrich. Occupying a...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1892-94
11 East 60th Street, New York, NY
Described by the 19th-century architectural historian Montgomery Schuyler as "the largest, most imposing, and most luxurious of the club-houses of New York" the Metropolitan Club Building was designed by Stanford White,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1930
14 Vesey Street, New York, NY
This building is four stories high, and above the third floor there is an attic story set back behind a handsome rail (balustrade) and roof deck. The building is an example of Federal Eclectic architecture. It is built...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1913-18
370 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The club, first organized in 1873 as the Racquet Court Club, occupied a building at 55 West 26th Street. However, it was incorporated on February 21, 1890, as the Racquet and Tennis Club "to encourage all manly sports...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1909-10
3 West 64th Street, New York, NY
The meeting house of the New York Society for Ethical Culture is one of the finest works of the architect Robert D. Kohn and one of the few buildings in New York City designed in the Art Nouveau style. Built in 1909-10,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1899-1900
37 West 44th Street, New York, NY
A brilliant synthesis of the Beaux-Arts tenets of character and composition, the New York Yacht Club Building marked the debut of the noted New York architectural firm of Warren & Wetmore. Built in 1899-1900 in the...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1847-48
171 Grand Street, New York, NY
Located on a prominent site on Grand Street, between Centre and Baxter Streets, the Odd Fellows Hall was designed by the architectural firm of Joseph Trench and John Butler Snook. Built in 1847-46, it is an early and...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1900-01
32 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The former Yale Club of New York City Building is located along “clubhouse row,” West 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, its neighbors including the Harvard Club, New York Yacht Club, Association of the Bar of...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1853
47 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Of all the mansions which once lined Fifth Avenue, from Washington Square to Central Park., only this one remains to display its original character; It is now the home of the Salmagundi Club.
Read the storyClubhouse · 1896-97
220 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1896-97 to the French Renaissance Revival style design of architect Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, the Society House of the American Society of Civil Engineers was the headquarters of the organization founded in 1852. As...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1891-92
215 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The American Fine Arts Society building is a dignified adaptation of a Francis First, French Renaissance town house. The facade displays an air of restrained elegance in its formally balanced composition. Below the...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1886-87
60 Pine Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1886-87 for The Down Town Association, this elegant Romanesque Revival style building was designed by noted architect Charles C. Haight. The Down Town Association, begun in 1860 as a luncheon club, was...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1894
27 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Sitting erect and dignified on West Forty-Fourth Street is this trim and elegant Georgian club house. The charm of this building lies in its red brick with limestone trim and in its intimate scale, the delicate...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1904-05
128 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Lambs, built in 1904-05, is a handsome neo-Georgian style clubhouse designed by the prominent New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. An extension, added in 1915 by architect George A. Freeman,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1874
15 Gramercy Park, New York, NY
The home of the National Arts Club represents the height of Victorian Gothic in residential architecture. It is replete with horizontal belt courses and pointed arched windows all done in contrasting colored stones...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1890
29 East 32nd Street, New York, NY
The Old Grolier Club (now the Gilbert Kiamie House) is a good example of how attractive and interesting the conventional "twenty-five foot front" can be made in New York. Here, in designing this three-story clubhouse,...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1845
16 Gramercy Park, New York, NY
This building was remodeled from a Gothic Revival town house. The very distinguished front porch of the Players with its handsome iron railings and gorgeous wrought iron lamps is the work of Stanford White. Few...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1897-99
1 West 54th Street, New York, NY
The University Club on its conspicuous corner site is one of the handsomest buildings on Fifth Avenue. Although this granite building of stately end noble proportions closely resembles a sixteenth century Italian...
Read the storyClubhouse · 1929-31
38 East 37th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1929-31, the Union League is a fine example of a neo-Classical style clubhouse, combining elements that recall the architecture of 18th century England and the American colonies. This style was especially...
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