St. Botolph Club
The St. Botolph Club is a private social club in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1880 by a group including many artists. Its name is derived from the English saint Botolph of Thorney.
Among the club's other activities in its quarters at 2 Newbury Street, it hosted an extensive and long-running series of fine arts exhibits, particularly new work from painters of the American Impressionists: Dennis Miller Bunker, Dodge MacKnight, Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr. (in a 1912 dual exhibition with animalier sculptor Albert Laessle[1]) and Willard Metcalf, who first showed his landscape May Night at the club in 1906. The club also exhibited work by Wilton Lockwood,[2] Adelaide Cole Chase, Frances C. Houston, and the sculptor Bela Pratt.[3] The Club also sponsored a baseball team that played against other Boston institutions such as the Tavern Club.[4]
Among its members were the architect Charles Follen McKim,[5] Boston composer Frederick Converse,[6] Sculptor Cyrus Dallin,[4] artist William McGregor Paxton,[4] and U.S. Army brigadier general Charles Brewster Wheeler.[7]
Originally exclusively a men's club, the St. Botolph Club has been open to women since 1988[8] in advance of a Supreme Court ruling against sexual and racial discrimination in social clubs that would have mandated it.[9]
The club appeared in fictionalized form as the "St. Filipe Club" in two novels written by Arlo Bates, The Pagans (1884) and The Philistines (1888).[10]
Since 1972 at 199 Commonwealth Avenue,[11] the club maintains reciprocal relationships with a large number of social clubs worldwide.
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