Down Town Association Building

60 Pine Street | also 20 Cedar Street | Financial District | built 1887

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.

1859
December 23
Twenty-seven businessmen found the Down Town Association
Meeting at the Astor House, 27 New York businessmen organized a downtown luncheon club, receiving a state charter the following April. Financial trouble and the Civil War forced the fledgling club to sell its first home and go dormant for fifteen years before reviving in 1877.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1887
May 23
Charles C. Haight's clubhouse opens on Pine Street
Club member and architect Charles C. Haight designed the Association's Romanesque Revival clubhouse, completed at a cost of $306,669.25 including land and furnishings. It became lower Manhattan's first purpose-built private club, and remains the oldest clubhouse in the city still occupied by the club it was built for.
Source: Wikipedia
1911
March 16
Warren & Wetmore add private dining rooms and a paneled reading room
As membership grew, the firm of Warren & Wetmore designed an addition to the clubhouse, completed in 1911 at a cost of $175,556.76 and featuring new private dining rooms and a Jacobean-style paneled reading room.
Source: Wikipedia
1985
The club admits women as members for the first time
More than a century after its founding as a men's luncheon club whose members included Franklin D. Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland, the Down Town Association began admitting women.
Source: Wikipedia

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