The Francisca Club is a women's only
private social club in
San Francisco, California
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. It is apparently the oldest private women's club surviving in San Francisco
and has been in its clubhouse since the 1920s.
It had typically had a membership of around 500;
however, recently this has declined to closer to 400.
Two other women's clubs in San Francisco were the
Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco, whose 640 Sutter St. building was built in 1914, and the
Women's Club of San Francisco, whose Sutter Street building was built in 1927.
[See ]Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County
The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County, at 525 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland, California, was built in 1928–29. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It has also been known as The Bellevue Club, as Women's Athletic ...
's NRHP nomination document for some information on these.
References
Clubs and societies in California
Women's clubs in the United States
Organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations established in the 1920s
History of women in California
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