Harmonie Club

4 East 60th Street | Upper East Side | built 1907

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

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1905
The Harmonie Club settles into its McKim, Mead & White clubhouse at 4 East 60th Street
After its first fifty years and five earlier homes, the Harmonie Club made its permanent home on East 60th Street in 1905. Members commissioned McKim, Mead & White to design the clubhouse, and the club credits Stanford White with the Beaux Arts building.
Source: harmonieclub.org
1939
Witnesses tell the Dies Committee that Harmonie Club members plot a communist revolution, citing a waiter's rumor
In 1939 Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert and James Campbell told the Dies Committee that several Harmonie Club members were plotting a communist overthrow of the government. Their evidence was a rumor traced to something a club waiter had overheard. Gilbert had praised fascist leaders in private letters and had been photographed giving the Nazi salute, and two other witnesses offered little support while showing thoroughly antisemitic beliefs.
Source: Wikipedia
2001
Michael Bloomberg resigns from the Harmonie Club over a perceived lack of diversity
In 2001, as he prepared his first run for mayor, Michael Bloomberg resigned from the Harmonie Club after a perceived lack of diversity there. The club had been founded in 1852 by German Jews who were reportedly turned away by the Union Club, and it had since said it was willing to widen its membership.
Source: Wikipedia

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