Union Club of the City of New York

The Union Club of the City of New York, founded in 1836, is the oldest club in the United States [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03EFDE173EE433A2575AC1A9609C946996D6CF] . 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.

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.

Prominent former members

*John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912), millionaire and RMS Titanic victim
*James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841-1918), publisher of the New York Herald, "bon vivant" and eponym of the British exclamation "Gordon Bennett!"
*William Bayard Cutting (1850-1912), attorney, financier, real estate developer, sugar beet refiner and philanthropist
*Edward Cooper (1824-1905), mayor of New York City
*Frank Crowninshield (1872-1947), journalist and art and theatre critic
*Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), thirty-fourth President of the United States
*John Ericsson (1803-1899), inventor and mechanical engineer who designed the USS Monitor
*Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company
*Luis de Florez (1889-1962), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and aerospace pioneer
*William M. Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer, US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and US Senator
*Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), eighteenth President of the United States
*Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903), lawyer and city planner
*Moses H. Grinnell (1803-1877), shipper and Central Park commissioner during its design and construction
*E. H. Harriman (1848-1909), railroad magnate
*W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), politician, businessman and diplomat
*William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), newspaper magnate
*Philip Hone (1780-1851), mayor of New York City and 19th century diarist
*J. Bruce Ismay (1862-1937), managing director of the White Star Line and RMS Titanic survivor
*Leonard Jerome (1817-1891), financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill
*John Alsop King (1788-1867), governor of New York
*Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), professor and credited author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
*J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector
*Winfield Scott (1786-1866), United States Army general
*Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888), general in the Union Army
*William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), general in the Union Army and businessman, educator, and author
*Leland Stanford (1824-1893), business magnate, politician and founder of Stanford University
*Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795-1868), founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology
*John Cox Stevens (1785-1857), first commodore of the New York Yacht Club and member of the syndicate that won the first America's Cup trophy in 1851
*A. T. Stewart (1803-1876), retailing pioneer
*Rutherford Stuyvesant (1843-1909), builder of the first apartment building in New York City in 1869
*Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), shipping and railroad entrepreneur
*Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970), railroad executive, yachtsman and bridge player
*Sumner Welles(1892-1961), government official and diplomat

ee also

* List of American gentlemen's clubs

Footnotes

External links

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