The Bohemian Club is a private club with two locations: a city clubhouse in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California, and the Bohemian Grove, a retreat north of the city in Sonoma County. Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journalists, artists, and musicians, it soon began to accept businessmen and entrepreneurs as permanent members, as well as offering temporary membership to university presidents and military commanders who were serving in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, the club has a membership of many local and global leaders, ranging from artists and musicians to businessmen. Membership is restricted to men only.
Metal bas relief owl and inscription on the brick wall at 624 Taylor Street, San Francisco
The Bohemian Club's City Clubhouse, from the corner of Taylor Street and Post Street
The Bret Harte Memorial by Jo Mora
Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre campground in Monte Rio, California. Founded in 1878, it belongs to a private gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world.
Bohemian Grove
Henry "Harry" Edwards, a founding member
Bohemian Grove members during Spring Jinx Encampment
A Bohemian tent in the 1900s, sheltering Porter Garnett, George Sterling and Jack London