Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.) The Metropolitan Club is a private club in Washington D.C. founded in 1863. It is known for being one of the most prestigious and exclusive clubs in the nation, together with the Knickerbocker Club in New York and the Somerset Club in Boston.Relationship with other clubs The Metropolitan Club has reciprocal agreements with: Jockey Club Knickerbocker Club Cercle Royal du Parc :it:Circolo della caccia |Circolo della Caccia Boodle's Brooks's Jockey Club für Österreich Nuevo Club :es:Círculo de Armas|Círculo de Armas Somerset Club Tokyo Club Australian Club .Notable Members John J. Pershing, General of the Armies 1860–1948 Theodore Roosevelt , President, 1858–1919 Franklin D. Roosevelt, President, 1882-1945 Henry White , Ambassador, and one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles . 1850–1927 Joseph C. Grew, Ambassador, 1880–1965 Henry Kissinger , Secretary of State Robert McNamara , Defense Secretary, President of the World Bank George Dewey , Admiral of the Navy , 1837-1917 William Tecumseh Sherman , General of the Army 1820–1891 Livingston T. Merchant, Ambassador, 1903–1976 William Howard Taft , President and Chief Justice, 1857–1930 Ulysses S. Grant, President, General of the Army, 1822-1885 J. P. Morgan, Financier, 1837–1913 John Hay , Secretary of State, 1838–1905 George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, 1880–1959 Count Arnaud de Borchgrave , Journalist, 1926–2015 Edward Fitzgerald Beale , Ambassador, Explorer, and Surveyor 1822–1893 John F. Kennedy, President, 1917-1963 Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary and Chief of Justice, 1808-1873 James L. Holloway III, Admiral, 1922-2019 Elihu Root , Secretary of State, 1845–1937 James W. Wadsworth, Senator, 1877–1952 John Sherman , Senator James V. Forrestal, Defense Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr ., Treasury Secretary John J. McCloy, Chairman of the World Bank John Baker , Businessman John Sherman, Senator Kichisaburo Nomura , Japanese Ambassador Spencer M. Clark, Superintendent of the National Currency Bureau Lucius Eugene Chittenden , Register of the Treasury Edward Jordan , Solicitor of the Treasury James Lorimer Graham Jr., Attorney Viscomte Henri de Sibour , Architect George Peabody Wetmore , Governor of Rhode Island John E. Pillsbury, Rear Admiral Philander Chase Knox , Secretary of State George Washington Riggs , Banker T. Coleman du Pont , Senator George Washington Vanderbilt II , Art Collector John Lorimer Worden , Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter , Admiral William Wilson Corcoran , Banker and Art Collector Nicholas Longworth III , Speaker of the House Arthur MacArthur Jr ., General John McAllister Schofield , Secretary of War William Henry Fitzhugh Lee , Confederate General and US Congressman John Lee Carroll , Governor of Maryland Jerome H. Kidder, Surgeon and Astronomer William Crowninshield Endicott , Secretary of War Francis Beverly Biddle , Attorney General and Nuremberg Judge Francis G. Newlands, Senator Alfred Thayer Mahan , Historian and Naval Theorist George Bancroft , Historian and Statesman Charles Glover Jr., Banker Nelson Appleton Miles , GeneralHistory The club was established in 1863. It eventually moved into its own building located at 1700 H Street NW in 1883. That building, designed by the architects Gray and Page, was destroyed in a fire in 1904. The architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge was responsible for the design of the current building. Construction of it was started in 1906 and completed in 1908. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites since 1964 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Metropolitan Club membership was men-only until 1988, when the club's governing board voted to accept women members following a Supreme Court ruling upholding a New York law mandating women membership at private clubs with more than 400 members. "The Metropolitan Club is one of Washington's oldest and most valued private institutions. Since its founding in 1863, at the height of the Civil War , by six Treasury Department officials, it has pursued its primary goal of furthering "literary, mutual improvement, and social purposes." Today, nearly 150 years after its founding, the Club continues to attract distinguished members from around the world . The Metropolitan Club's proximity to the White House and other icons of the nation's capital has made it a destination for many local, national and international leaders, including nearly every U.S. President since Abraham Lincoln. Its location and dedication to a tradition of social civility provide members with a haven from the bustle of Washington's professional life, while offering amenities associated with contemporary urban living."
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