Penn Club of New York
30 West 44th Street | Midtown | built 1901
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- 1901
The Yale Club opens its first clubhouse on West 44th Street
Architects Tracy & Swartwout, both Yale graduates, complete an eleven-story Beaux-Arts clubhouse for the Yale Club at 30 West 44th Street. The building opens on May 1, 1901, giving Yale alumni their first dedicated clubhouse in New York, with bedrooms on six of its floors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1915
The Yale Club moves out after outgrowing its clubhouse
With membership topping 3,000 and the clubhouse overcrowded, the Yale Club relocates in June 1915 to a new skyscraper at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue. The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity takes over the vacated building in 1917 after a $75,000 renovation, before the Army and Navy Club of America moves in in 1925.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1944
The U.S. Maritime Service opens a wartime headquarters in the building
After the Army and Navy Club of America goes bankrupt in 1933, the building stands vacant until the federal government buys it in December 1943. The United States Maritime Service opens a wartime regional headquarters there in June 1944, and the building later houses the Organized Reserve, precursor to the Army Reserve, starting in 1948.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1994
The Penn Club reopens the building as its first permanent home
The University of Pennsylvania, which bought the building in 1989 for $15 million, adds three stories to expand it from eleven to fourteen. The Penn Club of New York reopens there in June 1994 as its first permanent clubhouse, after Touro College had used the building for nearly two decades, including its law school in the early 1980s.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- 30 West 44th StreetWikipedia
- The 1901 Yale Club (now Penn Club) -- No. 30 West 44th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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