Links Club

36 East 62nd Street | also 38 East 62nd Street | Upper East Side | built 1902

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1898

    Conductor Anton Seidl dies at his house on the site, No. 38 East 62nd Street

    Before the club existed, the brownstone at No. 38 East 62nd Street was home to Anton Seidl, conductor of the New York Philharmonic. After his death there in 1898, visitors and flower deliveries filled the house, and telegrams arrived from Victor Herbert and other musicians. The funeral was too large for the house and was held at the Metropolitan Opera House.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1909

    Eugene Outerbridge, whose name is tied to the Outerbridge Crossing, lives in the brownstone at No. 38

    By 1909 the earlier house at No. 38 East 62nd Street was home to Eugene Outerbridge, an executive with many business interests, including the Pantasote Leather Company and a steamship line. New Yorkers know his name best from the Outerbridge Crossing, the bridge linking Staten Island and New Jersey.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1916

    January 21

    A syndicate led by Charles B. Macdonald buys two brownstones to make a golfers' clubhouse

    On January 21, 1916, the Times reported that Lillian Porter had sold her two brownstones to a syndicate headed by Charles B. Macdonald and Charles H. Sabin. In April plans were filed to join the houses into one building, remove the stoops and rebuild the interiors for $100,000, which one newspaper called a luxurious nineteenth hole.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1916

    January 21

    Golf pioneer Charles Macdonald founds the Links Club

    Golf course architect Charles B. Macdonald conceives an exclusive club for golf enthusiasts while riding a train to the Greenbrier in the fall of 1915. On January 21, 1916, a syndicate he heads with Charles H. Sabin buys a pair of East 62nd Street rowhouses, and architects Cross & Cross remodel them into a Neo-Georgian clubhouse that opens in 1917.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1917

    Cross & Cross finish a quiet neo-Georgian clubhouse with a roof garden

    The syndicate hired Cross & Cross, who finished the clubhouse in 1917 with orange-tinted brick in English bond and stone quoins. There is no grand stair, only an entrance a few steps below the sidewalk. A rooftop driving range was dropped in favor of a roof garden, and the New-York Tribune judged it probably the most luxurious nineteenth hole in the country.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1919

    April

    Henry Clay Frick gives the Links Club a Macdonald portrait

    In April 1919, industrialist Henry Clay Frick presents the Links Club with a portrait of founder Charles B. Macdonald, painted by Carl Melchers, honoring the man credited as the father of American golf course architecture.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  7. 1955

    Two dozen of the Links Club's 1955 members have been on Time's cover

    Wikipedia's list of the Links Club's notable members in 1955 includes President Dwight D. Eisenhower, banker David Rockefeller, and industrialists Thomas J. Watson Jr. and Henry Ford II. It names 24 of those 1955 members as having been featured on the cover of Time magazine.

    Source: Wikipedia

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