The Union League Club of New York is a prominent social club in New York City. Its fourth and current clubhouse (opened February 2, 1931) is a building designed by Benjamin Wystar Morris, located at 38 E. 37th Street in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.
Union League clubs, which are legally separate but share similar histories and maintain reciprocal links with one another, are also located in Chicago and Philadelphia. Defunct Union League Cl...
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The Union League Club of New York is a prominent social club in New York City. Its fourth and current clubhouse (opened February 2, 1931) is a building designed by Benjamin Wystar Morris, located at 38 E. 37th Street in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.
Union League clubs, which are legally separate but share similar histories and maintain reciprocal links with one another, are also located in Chicago and Philadelphia. Defunct Union League Clubs were located in Brooklyn and New Haven.
The club dates its founding from Feb. 6, 1863, during the Civil War. Tensions were running high in New York City at the time, because much of the city's governing class, as well as its large Irish immigrant population, bitterly opposed the war and were eager to reach some kind of accommodation with the Confederate States of America. Thus, pro-Union men chose to form their own club, with the twin goals of cultivating "a profound national devotion" and to "strengthen a love and respect for the Union."...
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