The Athenaeum is a faculty club and private social club on the

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campus in

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, California.

Building

The Athenaeum was designed by

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in the

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, with landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, and opened in 1930. It includes a restaurant, a private hotel with several named suites (''e.g.'' The Einstein Suite, where

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lived while at Caltech), and serves as Caltech's Faculty Club.

Members

Membership includes Caltech faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate seniors, alumni, trustees, and Associates of the California Institute of Technology, and staff of the

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. Notable regulars at the Athenaeum Round Table have included: *

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* Scott Fraser * Jesse L. Greenstein *

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