private club
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The Hartford Club began as a union of local men's clubs amalgamated due to financial woes. It began admitting women members in the 1970s. Its present clubhouse, located at 46 Prospect Street, was designed in 1901 by Robert D. Andrews of Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul and was completed in 1903. and It opened on January 1, 1908.
The club provides dining rooms, private banquet and meeting rooms, concierge services for members, and members' activities.
Architecture
The clubhouse is located in downtown Hartford, on the east side of Prospect Street, across from the
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and one block south of the Old State House. It is a three-story Georgian Revival building, slightly larger in size than domestic mansions of the period that were built in a similar style. It has a broad five-bay facade, with slightly projecting end bays. The ground-floor end windows are three-part Palladian style windows with narrow sidelights, and the center entrance has a series of elaborate projecting elements supported by Corinthian columns. Second-floor windows are set in openings with half-round tops set in recessed panels; the outer windows have the arched section filled with moulded decorative panels.
The clubhouse was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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List of American gentlemen's clubs
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut
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This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connec ...