The American Girls' Club in Paris was a boarding house for young American women aged eighteen to forty located at 4 Rue de Chevreuse in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The club was founded in September 1893 by the American Elisabeth Mills Reid and Mrs. Helen Pert Newell .https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/01/26/104106007.html?pageNumber=3 Its purpose was to provide "place for meeting and for sociablllty for those who by reason of their unfamiliarity with the language and the people of the country must otherwise be lonely and be handicapped, by their ignorance.".