The Standard Club is a private country club, founded as the Concordia Association in 1867. Originally located in

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, United States, the club is now located in the northern suburb of

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History

The club started as the Concordia Association, a social club for

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in 1867 in

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. Their premises, the 1892 Concordia Hall, are still standing in the

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historic district. In 1905 it was reorganized as the Standard Club and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders on the east side of Washington Street, between Fair Street (now Memorial Drive) and Woodward Avenue. The neighborhood, Washington-Rawson, became the heart of the Jewish community until the 1920s. It was later razed to make way for the

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interchange with

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and for

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and its parking lots (now

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and its parking lots). In the late 1920s the club moved to

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. The site was later acquired by its neighbors, the Yaarab

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temple. In the late 1940s, new quarters opened near Brookhaven, in what is now the

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business park and was located there until 1983, when Atlanta Inc. and Technology Park redeveloped the land. Today, the five buildings that form the headquarters of

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form a circle overlooking what was once the club's golf course and its lake. In the 1980s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek.

References

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