The Metropolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York. It was founded as a gentlemen's club in March 1891 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers led
The clubhouse's Fifth Avenue facade
The clubhouse's lower stories
Historical plaque outside the club
The house at 11 East 60th Street, redesigned in 1912 as an annex to the original clubhouse
The Union Club of the City of New York is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City that was founded in 1836. The clubhouse is located at 101 East 69th Street on the c
Metropolitan Club (New York City)
…Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, and Whitney families. Morgan and 24 other wealthy men founded the club after two prominent men were denied membership at the Union Club of the City of New York. Work on the clubhouse began that May, and the club had attracted 1,000 members when the building was completed in February 1894. In its first few…
Clubhouse at 101 East 69th Street
The club's main entrance