Lambs Club Building
130 West 44th Street | also 128 West 44th Street, 132 West 44th Street | Times Square | built 1905
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- 1905
The Lambs Club moves into its new clubhouse on West 44th Street
Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White designs a neo-Georgian clubhouse for the Lambs, a social club for theater and music professionals founded in 1874. The brick and marble facade carries carved lamb's-head ornament, and its upper floors hold a private theater used for the club's fundraising "gambols."
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- 1915
Architect George A. Freeman doubles the clubhouse's size
As membership grows toward what will reach about 1,700 by 1927, architect George A. Freeman designs an annex that roughly doubles the building's size. The expansion adds space for the club's dining, billiard, and theatrical activities alongside the original 1905 wing.
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- 1974
Carolyn Newhouse becomes the Lambs Club's first female member
After decades as a club whose membership had dwindled to mostly men over fifty, the Lambs admits Carolyn Newhouse as its first woman member. The vote comes the same year the city designates the clubhouse's exterior a landmark.
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- 1975
The financially struggling Lambs Club loses its clubhouse to foreclosure
Following a 1973 bankruptcy filing, the Lambs Club loses the building at a foreclosure auction for $350,000. The Manhattan Church of the Nazarene signs a contract to buy the property that May, ending seven decades of the theatrical club's ownership of the West 44th Street clubhouse.
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- 2010
The Chatwal hotel opens inside the former Lambs clubhouse
After a church and an off-Broadway theater company had occupied the building for three decades, developers reopen it as the 83-room Chatwal New York hotel. The Lambs Club restaurant, led by chef Geoffrey Zakarian, opens in the ground-floor space the following month.
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Further reading
- Lambs Club BuildingWikipedia
- The 1905 Lambs Club Building - 128 West 44th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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