Our well-trained banquet staff is at your service to meet all of your needs. With its warm wood paneling, beautifully apportioned furnishings and original art work, the University Club is a local treasure. The University Club offers a variety of rooms to meet your individual needs. Groups from 2 to 100 can be accommodated during the lunch hour. Room usage requires an advanced reservation.
Parking is available on site.
While Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber and their urbane friends were meeting for roundtable lunches at the Algonquin in New York, a group of college graduates, led by genealogist Howard W. Carter , founded the University Club of Pasadena in 1922. The new organization was a success from its inception, offering rich benefits to its members through the years, even flourishing while other clubs failed during the Great Depression. Providing a place where individuals with like interests and tastes could gather for a variety of activities, including smokers, book talks, bridge tournaments and musicales, the Club's membership requirement was for three or more years in an accredited college. If the University Club walls could talk, they'd have an interesting story to tell. In the beginning, the many brilliant scholars among the members attracted speakers of the same caliber.