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Colony Club

The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests.

History
, Mrs. Iselin and Mrs. Loew Original clubhouse With other wealthy women, including Anne Tracy Morgan (a daughter of J.P. Morgan), Harriman raised $500,000, and commissioned Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White to build the original clubhouse, later known as the "Old Colony Club". This building – at 120 Madison Avenue, between East 30th and East 31st Streets on the west side of Madison – was built between 1904 and 1908 and was modelled on eighteenth-century houses in Annapolis, Maryland. The Old Colony Club was sold to Genevieve Garvan Brady after the club moved to its new location in 1916. Today, the building houses the East Coast headquarters of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was awarded landmark status by the City of New York in 1966. and constructed from 1914 to 1916. It was designed by Delano & Aldrich in the Neo-Georgian style, with interiors designed by Elsie de Wolfe. The building has a marble base with red-brick and marble trim and columns for the upper floors. The Club presently has approximately 2,500 members who have access to discussions, concerts, and wellness and athletic programs. The Clubhouse consists of seven stories, 25 guest bedrooms, three dining rooms, two ballrooms, a lounge, a squash court, an indoor pool, a fitness facility and three personal spa service rooms. Annual gross revenues are more than $10 million. ==Reciprocal Clubs==
Reciprocal Clubs
Acorn Club (Philadelphia) • Alexandra Club (Melbourne) • Ausable Club (St. Huberts) • Bald Peak Colony Club (Melvin Village) • Cercle de l'Union Interalliee (Paris) • Chilton Club (Boston) • Hillsboro Club (Hillsboro Beach) • Jupiter Island Club (Hobe Sound) • Lansdowne Club (London) • Metropolitan Club (San Francisco) • Mill Reef Club (St. John's, Antigua) • Mount Vernon Club (Baltimore) • Mountain Lake (Lake Wales) • Sloane Club (London) • Springdale Hall Club (Camden) • Sulgrave Club (Washington D.C.) • Sunset Club (Seattle) • The Casino (Chicago) • The Francisca Club (San Francisco) • The Garrett Club (Buffalo) • The Lenox Club (Lenox) • The Little Club (Gulf Stream) • The Mid Ocean Club (Harrington Sound) • The New Club (Edinburgh) • The Queen's Club (Sydney) • The Town Club (Pasadena) • The West Chop Club of Martha's Vineyard (Vineyard Haven) • Wianno Club (Osterville) • Women's Athletic Club of Chicago (Chicago) == Notable members ==
Notable members
Madeleine Talmage Force Astor – wife of J. P. MorganRuth Morgan, women's rights and peace activist, and president of the Colony Club in 1922 • Judith PeabodyEmily K. Rafferty, former president Metropolitan Museum of Art • Eleanor Roosevelt – resigned when the Club refused to consider Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, because she was Jewish. • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller • Julia Catlin Park Taufflieb – the first American woman to receive the Légion d'honneur in World War I for turning her chateau in northern France into a 300-bed hospital • Anne Harriman Vanderbilt – founding member • Ava Lowle Willing – founding member • Anne Bass • Ann Macy Beha (Radloff) architect, preservationist, educator ==See also==
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