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The Union Club of the City of New York, founded in 1836, is the oldest club in North America[1]. Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap A gentlemen's club is a members-only private Club of a type originally set up by and for English Upper class men Located on East 69th Street and Park Avenue in New York City, it occupies a National Historic Landmark building opened on August 28, 1933 and designed by Delano & Aldrich. Park Avenue (formerly Fourth Avenue) is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City Borough of Manhattan The City of New York A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Adams Delano ( January 21 1874 &ndash January 12 1960) was a prominent American Architect, a partner with

This is the Club's sixth clubhouse and the third built for the members. The prior two clubhouses were at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, occupied from 1855 to 1903, and the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, occupied from 1903 to 1933. 51st Street is a 19 mile long one-way Street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.

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Prominent former members


See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03EFDE173EE433A2575AC1A9609C946996D6CF

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http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03EFDE173EE433A2575AC1A9609C946996D6CF

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