Yale Club

Active

Address

50 Vanderbilt Avenue

GPS

40.754002675711, -73.977446581498

BOOK

I took dinner usually at the Yale Club—for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day—and then I went upstairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour. There were generally a few rioters around, but they never came into the library, so it was a good place to work. After that, if the night was mellow, I strolled down Madison Avenue past the old Murray Hill Hotel, and over 33rd Street to the Pennsylvania Station.
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

The Great Gatsby

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Founded in 1897 by the Old Yale Alumni Association of New York with the aim of having a permanent headquarters that would serve as a social club and meeting point for Yale alumni in the city. Its first home was a rented house, and in 1901 it built its own building on 44th Street. The current headquarters opened in June 1915, designed by James Gamble Rogers, a Yale alumnus. The twenty-two-storey building includes multiple dining spaces and bars, banquet salons, 138 guest rooms, a library, a sports centre with squash courts and a pool, as well as other services. The heart of the club is its great main hall, with a high, ornamented ceiling, columns, fireplaces, and portraits—including those of five U.S. presidents educated at Yale and members of the club.

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