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Lakeside Club
Douglas Club
LaSalle Club
Union League Club of Chicago
Washington Park Club
Oaks Club
Park Club
Chicago Club
Illinois Club
Calumet Club
Farragut Boat Club
Indiana Club
Kenwood Club
Standard Club
Union Club
Lakeside Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: ""The Lakeside Club was organized in 1884, for the purpose of promoting social intercourse between its members and their families. Two houses were taken at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Thirtieth Street, and here the Club remained until 1888, when the new Club house on Indiana Avenue (between Thirty-first and Thirty-second Streets) was opened with a grand New Ye...
Douglas Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Organized in April, 1885, the Douglas Club has its quarters at 3518 Ellis Avenue."
LaSalle Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The LaSalle Club is a political and social organization. All the leading Republican politicians belong to it, and it is the centre of Republican activity in Chicago. … Organized in 1884 … early in 1888 it took possession of the fine building it now occupies, at 252 West Monroe Street, formerly the residence of C. C. Holton, Esq. The house is of marble, three stor...
Union League Club of Chicago
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The purposes of the Union League Club of Chicago (which was incorporated in 1879 …) are to encourage and promote by moral, social and political influence, unconditional loyalty to the Federal Government, and to defend and protect the integrity and prosperity of this Nation
Washington Park Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The objects of the organization called the Washington Park Club, which was incorporated in 1883, are to promote good fellowship among its members by providing a club house and pleasure grounds for their entertainment where at all times they may meet for social intercourse, and to encourage, by providing the proper facilities, raising, improving, breeding, trainin...
Oaks Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Austin Library Building and Club House." From text: "The Oaks was organized in January, 1882, and incorporated September 3d, 1884, its object being to promote social intercourse between its members and their families. In its early days the club occupied rooms in the Giles Block until the building was destroyed by fire November 13th, 1885, at which time it suffered ...
Park Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Park Club had its beginning at a social gathering of the leading gentlemen of South Park early in the spring of 1886. … The selection of its name was the natural sequence of its unrivalled location in the midst of the grand system of parks and boulevards, over whose thousands of acres of lawn and lake its windows look. While the majority of the members of the...
Chicago Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
Illinois Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "In 1881, the property which is the present quarters of the Club (154 Ashland Avenue) was purchased."
Calumet Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Building was located at Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street.
Farragut Boat Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The present club house (at 3016 Lake Park Avenue) was completed in the spring of 1886."
Indiana Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Indiana Club was organized in 1883, for the purpose of promoting social intercourse among its members and their families. The Club occupies the premises at 3349 Indiana Avenue, a handsome and commodious two story brick house, furnished throughout with every comfort and luxury. The billiard and pool rooms, the bowling alley and the dressing rooms are on the fi...
Kenwood Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "From this meeting resulted the present Kenwood Club, the organization of which was perfected in February, 1884. In June of the same year the Club took possession of the house on Forty-seventh Street, near Lake Avenue, which was formerly the residence of Norman B. Judd, Esq. To this house, a two story and basement frame building, a large addition, 40x75 feet, was ...
Standard Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Standard Club was organized in 1869, and chartered February 14th, 1887. The object for which it was formed is the social and mental improvement of its members by social intercourse and by various educational means, to-wit: The establishment and maintenance of a library, a gymnasium, a theater, a lecture and music hall, a reading room, the collection of painti...
Union Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Union Club was organized in 1878 … In 1881, the present handsome club house was built. Admirably situated on Washington Place (at the corner of Dearborn Avenue) it attracts the attention of every passer-by by the grace and beauty of its proportions. As you pass through the broad front door, you enter a spacious hall with walls and ceiling of exquisitely carve...
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