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Metropolitan Club (San Francisco)

Metropolitan Club
Motto: The House That Women Built

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Formation	1915
Type	Women's club
Location	640 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102
Coordinates	37°47′20″N 122°24′40″W / 37.78889°N 122.41111°W / 37.78889; -122.41111
Region served	San Francisco Bay
Website	www.metropolitanclubsf.org


Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Area	Union Square
Built	1917, 1923
Architect	Walter Danforth Bliss & William Baker Faville
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	04000955^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 10, 2004

The Metropolitan Club is a women's club in San Francisco, California. Their clubhous is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco.^[2]

History

nom ^[3]

Woman’s Athletic Club of Chicago was the model and inspiration for the Woman’s Athletic Club of San Francisco. ^[4]

older, incentives to recruit, largest women's club in sf ^[5]

dining room that serves both lunch and dinner fairly inexpensive (for Union Square) guest rooms first women's athletic club to be established west of the Mississippi strict dress code in its public space ^[6]

women's Metropolitan Club and the Olympic Club talked about merging about 20 years ago ^[7]

Architecture

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References

^ "National Register Information System – Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco (#04000955)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
^ Cite error: The named reference Lists was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Corbett, Michael R. (July 23, 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco". National Register of Historic Places. National Archives. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco". National Register of Historic Places. National Archives. 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
^ Bowles, Nellie (July 23, 2004). "S.F. women's clubs aging, rolls declining". SFGate. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
^ Barmann, Jay (November 17, 2016). "S.F. The 9 Coolest Private Clubs In The Bay Area". SFist. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
^ Lara, Adair (July 18, 2004). "S.F.'s exclusive clubs carry on traditions of fellowship, culture--and discrimination". SFGate. Retrieved April 16, 2024.

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Clubs

Nationwide	American Association of University Women American Woman's League Associated Daughters of Early American Witches Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Colonial Dames XVII Century Colonial Dames of America Daughters of the American Colonists Daughters of the American Revolution Daughters of the Cincinnati Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World General Federation of Women's Clubs Junior League Ladies' Memorial Association League of Women Voters National Association of Colored Women National Council of Jewish Women National Society of the Colonial Dames of America National Society of New England Women Phillis Wheatley Club Queen Isabella Association United States Daughters of 1812 United Daughters of the Confederacy United Order of Tents Women's Christian Temperance Union Women's National Republican Club Women's Joint Congressional Committee Women's Trade Union League Young Women's Christian Association
Alabama	Alabama's Colored Women's Club
Alaska	Anchorage
Arizona	Casa Grande Glendale Mesa Willcox
California	California State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Berkeley City Club Beverly Hills College Women's Club Corona Ebell Society Ebell of LA Francisca Club Hollywood Women's Press Club La Jolla Lincoln LA Nurses' Club Metropolitan Club San Pedro Wilfandel Club
Delaware	Milford Wilmington
Florida	Bradenton Davie Fort Lauderdale Miami
Georgia	Atlanta Neighborhood Union Atlanta Woman's Club Dawson Demorest Tennille
Hawaii	Daughters of Hawaii
Illinois	Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs Chicago Woman's Club Fortnightly of Chicago Frederick Douglass Woman's Club Three Arts Club
Indiana	Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Vincennes
Iowa	Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Des Moines
Kansas	Topeka Council of Colored Women's Clubs Building Woman's Club of Topeka
Kentucky	Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs
Louisiana	Era Club
Maryland	Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Maryland Woman Suffrage Association
Massachusetts	Chilton College Club of Boston Colored Female Religious and Moral Society New England Woman's Press Association New England Women's Club Woman's Era Club Saturday Morning Club
Michigan	Ladies' Library Association of Kalamazoo
Minnesota	Saint Paul
Mississippi	Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Montana	East Glacier
Nevada	20th Century Club
New Jersey	Kalmia Club Morristown Red Bank Rutherford Upper Montclair
New Mexico	Alamogordo Carrizozo Las Cruces Silver City
New York	Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs Brooklyn Woman's Club Colony Club Cosmopolitan Club Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn) Newswomen's Club of New York Sorosis Women's City Club
North Carolina	Charlotte
Ohio	Dayton
Oklahoma	Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Federation of Women's Clubs for Oklahoma and Indian Territories
Oregon	Ashland Colored Women's Clubs Dundee Town Club
Pennsylvania	Cosmopolitan Club Plastic Club
South Carolina	General Federation of Women's Clubs of South Carolina South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Tennessee	19th Century Club Country Woman's Club Ossoli Circle
Texas	Daughters of the Republic of Texas Texas Association of Women's Clubs Texas Equal Rights Association Texas Equal Suffrage Association Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Dallas Equal Suffrage Association El Paso Fort Worth Houston Heights Lyceum Club San Antonio
Utah	Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Virginia	Mount Vernon
Washington	Kirkland Longview Olympia University Club of Seattle
Wisconsin	Wauwatosa
Wyoming	Casper
Washington D.C.	Sulgrave Club Women's City Club

Publications

The Woman's Era

Conventions

First National Conference of the Colored Women of America

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