The Chilton Club is a private social club established in 1910, in the

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. Founded by Pauline Revere Thayer, the club was intended in part as a counterpoint to the Mayflower Club. The club was named after Mary Chilton because she had been the first woman to step out of the

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. The club occupies a large red brick building on Commonwealth Avenue, designed in 1870 by architect "Henry Richards of the firm of

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and Van Brunt." (However, some claim the building was designed by architects

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.) The building has been altered and expanded over the years.

"On May 18, 1910, the Chilton Club applied for (and subsequently received) permission to significantly remodel and expand the house, including removing the original third floor, with its mansard roof, and adding three additional floors, two of brick and the third "in roof." They also received permission to construct an addition at the rear, 38 feet by 18 feet 9 inches, five stories high above the basement, four of brick and one "in roof." The Club retained the firm of Richardson, Barott, and Richardson, and the work was overseen by F. L. W. Richardson, son of the noted architect
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. The addition was completed in February 1911. ... On May 28, 1926, the Club acquired 150 Commonwealth, which had remained in the Baker Estate until the previous year. They remodeled the house, combining it with 152 Commonwealth."

Some early members included:Constitution and By-laws, House Rules of the Chilton Club. 1922. * Katherine Abbott * Mrs. Rodolphe L. Agassiz * Mrs.

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) * Mrs. Nelson Bartlett * Mrs.

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* Helen C. Burnham * Ellen Bullard * Mrs.

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* Mrs. Philip Dexter * Marion H. Fenno * Pauline Fenno * Mrs. Henry S. Grew * Mrs. Edward Burlingame Hill * Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell * Mrs. John S. Lawrence * Mrs. Lester Leland * Mrs. Robert W. Lovett * Mrs. E. Preble Motley * Mrs. Henry Parkman * Mrs. Richard S. Russell * Mrs. Henry H. Sprague * Pauline Revere Thayer * Ruth Thayer * Mrs. Bayard Warren * Mrs. Edwin S. Webster * Mrs. C. Minot Weld * Mrs. Frederick S. Whitwell * Mary E. Williams * Mrs. Frederic Winthrop *

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* {{Authority control 1910 establishments in Massachusetts Culture of Boston Clubs and societies in Boston Back Bay, Boston Women's clubs in the United States Women in Massachusetts

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