The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
COLONY CLUB BUYS
PARK AVENUE SITE
New Home Will Be at sixty
second Street-Price
About $45O,OOO.
FIVE OLD HOUSES ON LAND
Building to Begin June Zen
tury Co. Not to Take
Old Place.
FIVE OLD HOUSES ON LAND

The Colony Club. the largest and
weaithlest women's club In this country
at a meeting OF its membership yesterday
morning unanimously adopted resolu-
ton to buy site at the northwest corner
OF Sixty-second street and Park avenue.
owned by the II. T. Wilson estate, for the
new home which 1t has had under consid-
Grafton since II became apparent long ago
that its present quarters are inadequate.
The ground purchased extends 100 fee:
on Park avenue and 100 feet on Sky
IL considered the highest class apartment
| house district in the city II is said that
the price asked was s+5o.ooo and the
amount agreed upon very little less than
that.
| There are five houses on the property
now with ninety day clause in each
lease, SO 1t will be June before the
/ Colony Club can go ahead with the build
/ ing OF it's new clubhouse.
! Mrs. J. Borden Hartman presided at
yesterdays meeting when the resolution
was passed
/ 1t became evident months ago that the
club had outgrown its presen; home In
Madison avenue. adjoining the northwest
corner OF Thirtieth street.
A move was determined upon and a
building committee selected OF which
Miss Mary Parsons OF 10 East Thirty
sixth street was chairman. The other
members OF the committee were Miss
Anne T. Morgan. Mrs. Richard Irwin, Miss
Caroline de Forest and Mrs. Frank Gray
Griswold.
Plans for the new building Were drawn
By Delano Aldrich of East Thirty
ninth street and were shown at the clut
for several days.
The first intimation among member
that they would have to seek a new club
house caused a MISUNDERSTANDING Som'
conservatives who wanted TO guard thu
excIusiveness OF the club favored MOVING
Nd town and keeping the membership lis
at 600.
Another faction wanted to build a club
house In the country and increase tn
membership to 1900. Finally the tw
factions came together when 1t was oh
vious that new quarters had to be found
Although the chief reason for the re
movai was the need Of more room. tn
rapid business invasion OF Madison ave
nue. below Thirty fourth street was con
tributing factor. The property purchase
yesterday through Douglas Robinson
: Charles :. Brown Company is in an apar,
: ment house and club district.
There have been rumors since the ar
nouncement Of the clubs intention
move uptown that the Century Compan.
publishers OF the Century Mdgdsin
: might purchase the Colony Club hous
: This was denied last night by Dougla
z. Doty. secretary OF the Century Con
pany. who said that the magazine poop
L would stay where they are for two c
three years at least.
!. The Colony Club was founded earl
: IN 1907. Its n,embership was limited
600. Mrs J. Borden Hartman was Il
originator of the Colony Club idea ar
has been president since It was estal
: lslsed
The present site cost 1900 900. and Z
It was erected the first building use
exclusively by womans club in tn
city. The building cost about $500,
and the other property Of tho club h,
i been valued at Sss,O00. The initiate
i fec 10 $3.50 and the annual dues 500.