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Fight for a City: The story of the Union League Club of Chicago and its times, 1880-1955. John S. Swift Co. OCLC 1336506; The Union League Club of Chicago (1926). The spirit of the Union League Club, 1879-1926: presented by the Club to its members on the occasion of the dedication of the new clubhouse. The Club. OCLC 7720098
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
During his lifetime, Yale also became a member of the Union League Club of New York, the Union League Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Cliff Dwellers Club, the Union Club and the St. Louis Club. [47] [4] Julian L. Yale died of apoplexy on March 3, 1909, at his home in Chicago, without children. [48] [1]
The oldest Union League of America council member, an organization originally called "The League of Union Men", was formed in June 1862 in Pekin, Illinois. Four months later, on November 22, 1862, the Union League of Philadelphia , the first of the elite eastern Leagues and the second oldest ULA council member, was established (and is still ...
The club's main entrance. The Union League Club is a private social club in New York City that was founded in 1863 in affiliation with the Union League.Its fourth and current clubhouse is located at 38 East 37th Street on the corner of Park Avenue, in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan.
Washington University in St. Louis Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri Mending the Net: Oil on canvas 1881 32.1 x 45.1 in 81.6 x 114.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art The Sculptor - Portrait of William R. O'Donovan: Oil on canvas ca.1891-92 Lost, probably destroyed Portrait of Amelia Van Buren: Oil on canvas c.1891 44.8 x 31.8 in 114 x 81 cm
The club spent the first five-plus weeks of the 1885 season on the road, [3] and the park was finally opened on June 6 with a victory over the St. Louis Maroons, late of the Union Association. Despite being "wanderers" early in the season, the powerful Chicago club, under player-manager Cap Anson, came home with an 18–6 record. They would ...
The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...