Chicago Club
- Architect
- Alfred Hoyt Granger
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
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The Chicago Club is a private social club founded in 1869 and housed in a Romanesque Revival clubhouse designed by Alfred Hoyt Granger at 81 East Van Buren Street at Michigan Avenue in the Loop. It grew out of the informal Dearborn Club, a group of Chicago businessmen who met to drink and play cards until the Cook County Sheriff shut them down in 1868; when members reorganized in January 1869, a $100 membership fee drew many of the city's most prominent businessmen, politicians, and families. The clubhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the style
The clubhouse is built in the Romanesque Revival style, presenting a prominent, formal facade to Michigan Avenue at the edge of the Loop.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
The Chicago Club's clubhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the club itself has long counted many of Chicago's most prominent businessmen, politicians, and families among its members.
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