Maryland Club

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Maryland Club
Formation1857 (1857)
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Website www.marylandclub1857.org

The Maryland Club is a private social club in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857 as an exclusive men's club, it is today one of the oldest surviving such clubs. Its 1891 Romanesque clubhouse, located at 1 East Eager Street in the Mount Vernon neighborhood, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. [1]

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The Club’s members have traditionally been among the region’s most prominent business, professional, civic and nonprofit leaders. Membership is by invitation only. The Club's website says it wants a diverse membership of outstanding individuals regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. [2]

In 1861, the Club supported the secession of the Confederate States of America. [3] The Club was closed by Union troops during the American Civil War. General Lew Wallace outraged local residents by turning the clubhouse building into a shelter for homeless former slaves. [4] The Club re-opened after the war. [3] The Club opposed Prohibition and flouted the law through the use of private lockers. [3] After a 1995 fire nearly destroyed its building, the Club restored its architectural and aesthetic elements. In 2019, a major renovation added squash facilities, improved the exercise area, added a bistro-style restaurant, and made other system upgrades.[ clarify ][ citation needed ]

In 1988, the Club began accepting Jews as members. [5] In 2021, the Club began admitting women as members through its regular admission process. Women have since been elected to the formerly all-male Board of Governors of the Club.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Maryland Club". Maryland's National Register Properties. Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  2. ↑ "Home - Maryland Club". www.marylandclub1857.org. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  3. 1 2 3 "History". Maryland Club.
  4. ↑ Brugger, Robert J. (1988). Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 364. ISBN   9780801854651 . Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Pietila, Anteri J. (2010). Not in My Neighborhood How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980. Chicago,Illinois: Ivan R. Dee Publisher. p. 140. ISBN   978-1-56663-843-2.
  6. ↑ Gunning, Brooke; O'Donovan, Molly (2000). Baltimore's Halcyon Days. Arcadia Publishing. p. 75. ISBN   9780738506319 . Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Steiner, Bernard C. (1907). Men of Mark in Maryland: Biographies of Leading Men of the State. Washington, D.C.: Johnson-Wynne Company. p. 69. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Shepherd, Henry Elliot (1893). History of Baltimore, Maryland. S.B. Nelson. p. 865. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Shepherd, Henry Elliot (1893). History of Baltimore, Maryland. S.B. Nelson. p. 953. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  10. ↑ Steiner, Bernard C. (1907). Men of Mark in Maryland: Biographies of Leading Men of the State. Washington, D.C.: Johnson-Wynne Company. p. 30. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "James T. Woodward, The Banker, Is Dead" (PDF). New York Times . April 11, 1910. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  12. ↑ The Maryland Club, A History of Food and Friendship in Baltimore, 1857-1997; Pg 90, Robert J. Brugger
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