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Union Club (Sydney)
Union Club may refer to: Ottoman Empire * İttihatspor, a Turkish football club founded as Union Club in 1908 United Kingdom * Union Club (Bristol), an 18th-century pro-Whig political club * Union Club (London), a gentlemen's club in Trafalgar Square, 1827–1923 United States * Union Club of Boston, Massachusetts * Union Club of the City of New York The Union Club of the City of New York (commonly known as the Union Club) is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City that was founded in 1836. The clubhouse is located at 101 East 69th Street on the corner of ... * Pacific-Union Club, in San Francisco, California * Atherton Hotel at Oklahoma State University, originally the Union Club Fictional * Union Club, a club in short stories by Isaac Asimov, many in '' The Union Club Mysteries'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä°ttihatspor
İttihatspor or founded as Union Club in 1908 was a Turkish association football, football club founded by Turkish footballer Ziya Songülen who founded, and later left the major Turkish Sports club, multi-sport club Fenerbahçe S.K. (football), Fenerbahçe, former mayor of Istanbul Cemil Topuzlu, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ottoman Empire Mehmed Rıfat Pasha, British businessman Whittall Mansion, Moda, James William Whittall and English sportsperson James LaFontaine. Union Club was refounded in 1920 with the name İttihatspor by Aydınoğlu Raşit Bey, the same year it became champions of the Istanbul Sunday League. The Union Club, legally did not have the identity of a sports club. It was considered a commercial and private enterprise. With the initiatives of the Minister of Finance of the period, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Şükrü Saraçoğlu, a decision of the Council of Ministers in 1929 introduced the practice that if there were more than one sports club operating i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Club (Bristol)
The Union Club was an eighteenth century political club in Bristol that organised political support for Whig candidates. It was opposed to the Tory A Tory () is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain. The To ... supporting Steadfast society. References {{UK-history-stub Whigs (British political party) Clubs and societies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Club (London)
This is a list of members' clubs in London, which is not complete. It includes private members' clubs with physical premises in London, England, as well as those that no longer exist or have merged. There is an additional section for clubs that appear in fiction. Most of these clubs were originally gentlemen's clubs with membership restricted to men, but the majority now admit women as well, and a number of women-only clubs also exist. Extant clubs Defunct or merged clubs Fictional clubs * Bagatelle Card Club – One of Colonel Sebastian Moran's clubs in the Sherlock Holmes story ''The Adventure of the Empty House'' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. * Beargarden Club – A St James's club in Trollope's ''Palliser novels'' * Bellamy's - Guy Crouchback's club in Evelyn Waugh's novel Officers and Gentlemen * Bellona Club – Lord Peter Wimsey's club and location of a murder in Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club * Billiards Club – Setting for the improba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Club Of Boston
__NOTOC__ The Union Club of Boston, founded in 1863, is one of the oldest gentlemen's clubs in the United States. It is located on Beacon Hill, adjacent to the Massachusetts State House. The clubhouse at No. 7 and No. 8 Park Street was originally the homes of John Amory Lowell (#7), and Abbott Lawrence (#8). The houses were built c.1830-40, and they were remodeled for club use in 1896. The clubhouse overlooks the Boston Common, and has views of the Common itself, Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, and the hills to the west of the city. The Union Club was formed by members of another prominent Boston gentlemen's club, the Somerset Club, after disagreement over whether to support the Union cause during the American Civil War, about which the members of the club split along political lines. In response, defectors formed the Union Club, which demanded "unqualified loyalty to the constitution and the Union of our United States, and unwavering support of the Federal Government in eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Club Of The City Of New York
The Union Club of the City of New York (commonly known as the Union Club) is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City that was founded in 1836. The clubhouse is located at 101 East 69th Street on the corner of Park Avenue. Designed by Delano & Aldrich, the current clubhouse opened on August 28, 1933. The Union Club is the oldest private club in New York City, the second oldest "city club" in the United States, after the Philadelphia Club, and is the fifth oldest "private club" in the United States,"Waitresses at Union Club" ''The New York Times'' (June 19, 1918) after the South River Club in |
Pacific-Union Club
The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse is the former Flood Mansion, built as a home for silver magnate James Clair Flood. It was designed by Canadian architect Augustus Laver. The reconstruction and expansion of the original mansion into the clubhouse was designed by Willis Polk. It is considered the first brownstone constructed west of the Mississippi River. Along with the Fairmont Hotel across the street, it was the only structure in the area to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Prominent members Some notable citizens have been Pacific-Union Club members, including: * John Barneson, founder of General Petroleum Corporation, General Pipe Line Company * Riley P. Bechtel, CEO, Bechtel Corporation * Stephen Bechte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atherton Hotel At Oklahoma State University
The Atherton Hotel at Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, originally the Union Club, was built in 1950. It is Georgian in style. It is run by Oklahoma State University's School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration. According to the hotel's website, it was termed the "Waldorf of the West" when it opened in 1950, and it "was the first purpose-built hotel located in a university Student Union." It was built with 81 guest rooms and suites, and featured "an automatic elevator service, circulating ice water system, and adjacent parking". The hotel was renovated "from lobby to roof" during 2001 to 2004, and was reopened as "The Atherton Hotel at OSU" in honor of Bill Atherton, an OSU graduate who was the major donor and otherwise led in fundraising for the restoration. The Ranchers Club restaurant within the hotel was opened in 2005. The hotel was listed on the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America in 2005. In 2014, a further renovation began "of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
