DC -- Dupont Circle -- Cosmos Club (2121 Mass. Ave NW):
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- COSMOS_970806_01.JPG: Cosmos Club
This building was built in 1900 during the start of the building boom around DuPont Circle. It was the Washington mansion of Peter Townshend, who had headed the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad before retiring to the area. There had been another beautiful house (the Hillyer Mansion) here before which was razed for this one, except for the foundations which were kept because Townshend's wife had been told by a soothsayer than evil would come unless something was retained from the previous place.
The Townshend's entertained here until the 1930's, hosting lavish parties. Later residents included Franklin Roosevelt.
The Cosmos Club purchased the site in 1950. This is a social club for people of wealth, power, and fame. Originally a men-only club, they changed membership rules in the late 1980's and now allow women to join as well.
- Wikipedia Description: Cosmos Club
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cosmos Club is a private social club in Washington, D.C., founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878. Among its stated goals is "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art". Cosmos Club members have included four U.S. Presidents, two U.S. Vice Presidents, a dozen Supreme Court justices, 32 Nobel Prize winners, 56 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 45 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Since 1952, the Club's headquarters have been in the Townsend House on Embassy Row.
History
In addition to Powell, original members included Clarence Edward Dutton, Henry Smith Pritchett, William Harkness, and John Shaw Billings. The Club originally met in the Corcoran Building on the corner of 15th and F Streets, N.W., but moved to Lafayette Square in 1882. Eventually, the Club occupied the Tayloe and Dolley Madison Houses on the eastern side of the Square, and razed two rowhouses between them for additional space. Prompted to relocate by the federal government, the Club moved to the Townsend House in mid 1952.
Since 1887, the regular meeting place of the Philosophical Society of Washington has been the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club, now called the John Wesley Powell auditorium. The National Geographic Society was founded in the Cosmos Club in 1888, and The Wilderness Society was founded there in 1935.
For its first 110 years, the Cosmos Club did not permit women members, and forbade female guests to enter by the front door or to enter rooms reserved for members. In 1987, the Washington, D.C., Human Rights Office ruled that there was probable cause to believe that the club's men-only policy violated the city's anti-discrimination law. The Office was ready to order public hearings on the case, which could have resulted in the loss of all city licenses and permits if the all-male policy had continued, but the Cosmos Club then voted on June 19, 1988, to accept women as members.
In 1990, the Cosmos Club began publication of Cosmos: A Journal of Emerging Issues as an annual publication of original essays by its members.
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