Housing
Yes, Elite Women's Clubs Still Exist
In Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, members-only meetinghouses continue to occupy prime real estate.
This post is part of a CityLab series on open secrets—stories about what’s hiding in plain sight.
The Sulgrave Club is an elite women’s organization that has occupied its location—a tan brick mansion in the tony Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Dupont Circle—since 1932. That year, the widow of a millionaire gentleman farmer from upstate New York, who earlier in the century had used the house as her winter residence, sold it to a group of similarly privileged D.C. women for their new club.