Pen + Brush Club

 museum, social club

4-story Greek-revival club building originally completed in 1848 as a rowhouse for Abraham Bininger. It reflects, in its detail, some of the influence of the incoming Italianate style. This may be seen in the cast iron railing of the stoop and areaway, rusticated basement, three bays of casement windows, and the use of stucco simulating brownstone. The front doorway is basically Greek Revival, although the introduction of a three-centered arch beneath the entablature indicates Italianate influence, as do the doors with round-arched door panels surrounded by a handsome rope molding.

The Pen & Brush Club is a women's arts organization founded in the 1890s; among its members have been muckraker Ida Tarbell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ellen Wilson (Woodrow's wife), Marianne Moore and Pearl Buck. The organization made this brownstone building its clubhouse in 1923.

www.penandbrush.org/