University Club of Albany

rdf:langString University Club of Albany

rdf:langString University Club of Albany

rdf:langString University Club of Albany

rdf:langString A three-story brick building with a flat roof and colonnaded entrance portico, seen from across the street. To its right is a long two-story wing, and a more modern wing is partially visible to its rear.

rdf:langString South profile and east elevation, 2011

rdf:langString New York

rdf:langString A map of New York showing rivers and county boundaries. There is a red dot at the location of Albany, south of the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers

rdf:langString Location within New York

rdf:langString The University Club of Albany, New York, was founded at the start of the 20th century. It is currently housed in a Colonial Revival brick building at the corner of Washington Avenue (New York State Route 5) and Dove Street. In 2011 that building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Young men who had recently graduated from college founded the club in the early 20th century as a place to gather until they had achieved the social status necessary to follow their fathers into the older Fort Orange Club. It met in one founder's house for several years until it could purchase a house that stood at the current location, on which it built a wing. When that house burned down in the 1920s, Albany architects the designed the current main building to replace it. It was his last major work in the city. The club has played a role in the city's social and cultural life since its founding. Speakers at its events in its early years included President William Howard Taft, Andrew Carnegie, Earl Grey and various governors of New York. Its amenities include a library, dining facilities, meeting rooms, and one of the oldest bowling alleys in the country, which may also be the oldest private bowling alley in continual use in the state.