Private Clubs

"The Coffee House: A Private Club Together w/ A List Of Members" April 15, 1957

[31] pp.

1957

7 7/8" x 4 1/2"

54 West Forty-Fifth Street

w/ cover by John Held Jr.

Stapled wraps

Thus was born The Coffee House, which for the next sixty-seven years was quartered in the Hotel Seymour, at 54 West 45th Street. (The name “Coffee House” was decided on in the hope that the Club might take its character from the coffee houses which first appeared in London during the reign of Charles II, and had grown to such popularity by Queen Anne’s time that they were patronized by all the wits and talent of the town.)  In 1982, demolition of the hotel began and the Club was required to move.


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