Cornell Club

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187-foot, 14-story Neo-Classical clubhouse completed in 1921 as a 10-story office building. Designed by Clement W. Fairweather for the Chicago Pneumatic Tube Corporation, it was transferred as a gift to Cornell University and was renovated by Gensler & Associates, with the new clubhouse opening its doors on December 1, 1989.

The facade is clad in brown brick above a 2-story limestone base, with a wide center bay and narrow end bays. The ground floor has entrances at both ends, the main one at the west, where there is a red, rounded canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. Both entrances have brass-and-glass doors, topped by brass louvers. Cornell University seals are mounted on the facade above each entrance. The middle bay has a large show-window framed in brass, above brass vents at the sidewalk level. Slightly-projecting piers frame both end bays. The 2nd floor has a band of six window panes in the middle bay, with black metal frames, and similar double-windows in the end bays. The base is capped by a broad entablature with a dentiled cornice.

The upper floors have single-windows in the end bays, and three windows recessed between narrow pilasters in the middle bay. There are three projecting flagpoles, one above the center window on the 3rd floor, and the other two on the piers between the bays on the 3rd floor. The windows have stone sills and brick lintels; on the end bays, the lintels extend across the entire bay, and there are also smaller horizontal brick bands on these bays. At the 9th floor the three windows of the middle bay are grouped under a segmental-arch with a keystone, and the end bays have stone surrounds at the windows, which are flanked by triglyphs. A stone cornice with large modillions surmounts the 9th floor.

The original attic floor was rebuilt when the new floors were added on top in 1989. They are clad in lighter-colored brick, with the end bays setting back above the 11th floor. Above the 14th floor is a sloping metal roof. The upper floors of the east elevation are clad in red brick.

The Cornell Club-New York, usually referred to as The Cornell Club, is a private club located in midtown Manhattan. Its membership is restricted to alumni and faculty of Cornell University, family of Cornellians, business associates of Members, and graduates of The Club's affiliate schools. The first Cornell Club was formed by Cornell University graduates in 1889.

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