The American Girls' Club in Paris was a boarding house for young American women aged eighteen to forty located at 4 Rue de Chevreuse in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The club was founded in September 1893 by the American Elizabeth Mills Reid (wife of Whitelaw Reid, the former United States Ambassador to France) and Mrs. William Newhall.San Francisco Call
(21 November 1909), Page 4.http://www.GlobalCenters.Columbia.Edu Reid Hall History Accessed March 5, 201

It purpose was to provide "place for meeting and for sociablllty for those who by reason of their unfamiliarity with the language and the people of the country must otherwise be lonely and be handicapped, by their ignorance.".Mariea Caudill Dennison, Woman's Art Journal
"The American Girls' Club in Paris: The Propriety and Imprudence of Art Students, 1890-1914" Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 2005), pp. 32-37Phelps Publishing Company, 1907, Good Housekeeping, Volume 45, P.415
/ref> Young women paid $30 per month for room and board. The club served tea at 4pm and taught evening lessons in French for one franc per day. It included libraries and an independent studio, although did not include enough space for a full bath. Students often studied at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

and Académie de la Grande Chaumière art schools. The club closed with the onset of World War I and was converted to an

American Red Cross The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. It is the desi ...

hospital. The building is now owned by Columbia University as

Reid Hall Reid Hall is a complex of academic facilities owned and operated by Columbia University that is located in the Montparnasse quartier of Paris, France. It houses the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in addition to various ...

Residents

* Birgitta Moran Farmer * Anne Goldthwaite * Mary Rogers Williams *

Emma Cheves Wilkins Emma Cheves Wilkins (1870–1956) was an American painter who played a major role in the art scene in Savannah, Georgia during the early twentieth century. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of Armstrong State University in Savanna ...

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