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The club's board voted in 1933 to borrow $200,000; by then, the club was recording a $50,000 annual deficit, and real-estate taxes had tripled compared to before World War I. [107] With the repeal of Prohibition that year, the club applied to the New York state government for a liquor license. [108]
Isaac D. Fletcher was an industrialist and art collector during the late 19th century, [15] [16] who was the president of the New York Coal Tar Company and the Barrett Manufacturing Company. [7] Fletcher purchased a land lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street from Henry H. Cook for $200,000 (equivalent to $7,324,800 in 2023) in 1897.
Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York.The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard.
The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. The club is located in a mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, built in 1847. Booth bought the house in 1888, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse.
Hycroft is a mansion in the Shaughnessy district of Vancouver. It was designed and built in 1909–12 by Thomas Hooper for Alexander Duncan McRae who was a businessman, farmer, politician and soldier. The internal plasterwork was sculpted by Charles Marega.
The club's main entrance. The current building is the club's sixth clubhouse and the third built specifically for the members. The prior two clubhouses were at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, occupied from 1855 to 1903; and on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, a limestone clubhouse occupied from 1903 to 1933.
The property, known as Ledgerock, spans 10.7 acres along the Hudson River in Hyde Park, New York. Built by real estate investor Jacob Frydman and his wife Monica, the 15,000-square-foot limestone ...
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.