The Lotos Club at 5 East 66th St., designed by Richard Howland Hunt
Formation
March 15, 1870[1]
Type
Private social club
Headquarters
5 East 66th Street
Location
New York, New York
Website
lotosclub.org
A table d'hôte menu from the dinner for Walter Damrosch at the Lotos Club, 1893
The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs".[1] The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. Two lines from the poem were selected for the Club motto:
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon[2]
The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its "State Dinners" (1893 menu at right below) are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners.
^ ab"The Lotos Club," official website. Accessed May 11, 2011.
^"The Lotos Club: History and Objectives," Lotos Club official website. Accessed May 10, 2011.
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