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1 West 54th Street
Location	1 West 54th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Coordinates	40°45′41″N73°58′32″W / 40.7613°N 73.9756°WCoordinates: 40°45′41″N73°58′32″W / 40.7613°N 73.9756°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1899^[2]
Architect	Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead, and White
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference #	80002726^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1980
Designated NYCL	January 11, 1967

Founded in 1887 to foster an appreciation of literature and the arts, the University Club of Chicago is proud to offer our members diverse experiences that draw upon the sustaining values of education. The University Club is conveniently located in the heart of New York’s shopping, financial and cultural districts. For the exclusive benefit of our members and their sponsored guests, we have 97 overnight rooms. Each of our elegantly appointed overnight rooms is designed to accommodate your every need.

The University Club of New York (also known as University Club or UClub) is a private social club located at 1 West 54th Street at Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York. It received its charter in 1865, but the origins date back to the autumn of 1861 when a group of college friends, principally Yale alumni, founded the club hoping to extend their collegial ties. The club is not affiliated with any other University Club or college alumni clubs. The club is considered one of the most prestigious in New York City. ^[3]

History[edit]

The first meeting was held in the rooms of the Columbia College Law School (now the Columbia University Law School), where Theodore Dwight, the Club's first president and a Hamilton College alumnus, was a professor. After several moves, the club took over an existing townhouse at 26th Street and Madison Avenue, in 1883.

Founded to celebrate the union of social duty and intellectual life, the Club states in its charter that the purpose of the organization shall be the 'promotion of Literature and Art by establishing and maintaining a Library, Reading Room and Gallery of Art, and by such other means as shall be expedient and proper for such purposes.' In addition to its many grand architectural features, the University Club hosts one of New York's great private art collections, with a particularly strong group of works by great American painters such as Gilbert Stuart and Childe Hassam, who featured the Club's facade in his work Allies Day, May 1917.

The club was all-male until 1987.^[4]

Building[edit]

By the 1890s, with its membership limited by the size of its building to 1,500 resident members and 900 who lived elsewhere, the Club was looking for a larger space, because it had nearly 600 people on a waiting list to join. It acquired the St. Luke's Hospital site and proceeded to seek an architecture firm. The firm of Charles McKim, William Mead and Stanford White, who were all members, got the architectural commission and went on to design what remains one of the grandest clubhouses of the city's prominent social clubs.^{[citation needed]}

Erected in 1899, in a Mediterranean RevivalItalian Renaissancepalazzo-style, the building is particularly noted for its reading room (with ceiling murals by H. Siddons Mowbray modeled after the Vatican Apartments), dining room, and the attempt made by the architects to disguise a nine-story building behind what seems to be a three-story facade.

McKim, Mead and White commissioned Edward F. Caldwell & Co. to provide light fixtures for the University Club among other architectural commissions for the company.^[5]

References[edit]

^'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^'AIA Guide to New York City, 4th Edition, page 295
^Shipp, E. R. (June 6, 1987). 'The University Club Votes to Take Women as Members'. The New York Times.
^'Page Six: That Time Hillary Clinton Was Kicked Out of University club'. New York Post. June 8, 2016.
^Doug, Dunlop. 'Shedding Light on New York: Edward F. Caldwell & Co'. Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

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Horsley, Carter B. 'The Midtown Book: The University Club'. The City Review. Article about the building.

External links[edit]

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Official Site at universityclub.org
'University Club'. greatbuildings.com. Extensive list of sources]
C., Justin (May 25, 2007). 'University Club review'. Yelp. Report of a visit to the gym.

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