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词条 The Boston Club
释义

  1. History

  2. Description

  3. Famous guests

  4. Notable members

  5. Significance

  6. Horse Racing

  7. Homes of The Boston Club

  8. See also

  9. References

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| name =The Boston Club
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| caption = The Boston Club of New Orleans, Dr. William Newton Mercer House
| location = 824 Canal Street New Orleans, Louisiana
| built = 1844
| architech = James Gallier
| founded = May 15, 1841
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}}The Boston Club is a private gentlemen's club in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, founded in 1841 as a place for its members to congregate and partake in the fashionable card game of Boston. It is the oldest remaining prominent social club in the city, after the Elkin Club, The Pelican Club and The Orleans Club closed. [1]. The present clubhouse is located at 824 Canal Street, formerly 148 Canal St, on the edge of the Central Business District, and was built in 1844 by James Gallier as a city residence for Dr. William Newton Mercer, a planter in Mississippi and surgeon from the War of 1812. Organized in 1841, by thirty leading mercantile and professional men, they were the heads of families and men of substance on the shady side of life, yet full of bonhomie and fond of the card game of Boston, from which this club was christened. It epitomized the South’s most refined male tastes and attitudes, a member once noted, “Propriety of demeanor and proper courtesy are alone exacted within its portals.”[2]

History

The Boston Club is the third oldest Gentlemen’s City Club in the United States behind The Philadelphia Club in Philadelphia and Union Club of the City of New York in New York City. Members organized and rented rooms first in 1841 at the Merchants Exchange, 126 Royal St, in the Vieux Carre, then 129/130 Canal Street until the Civil War when it closed from 1862-1866. After the war it occupied 214 Royal Street (currently the Hotel Monteleone) until 1867 at which point it moved to 4 Carondelet Street, the former home of New Orleans financier, Edward J. Forstall. In 1884 it moved into its current clubhouse at 824 Canal Street (then known as 148 Canal Street) and the house was fully purchased by 1905.[3] The club was closed for 3 years during the Civil War.[4]

The Elkin Club, founded 1832 and shuttered in 1838, was the first social club in New Orleans. An open club, it sponsored dances and balls in the vicinity of Bayou St John and closed due to the financial crisis of 1837. The Pelican Club founded 1843 and folded at the beginning of the Civil War, confined its membership through blackball policies to bankers, cotton brokers, attorneys, physicians, and political leaders; the smallest lapse in credit spelled denial of membership. Younger gentlemen, who had been rejected membership to the Pelican Club, organized The Orleans Club in 1851 with similar, yet less restrictive, membership policies; but similarly shuttered its doors, never to reopen, at the outset of the Civil War. Members of this club full of jovial mirth would go on to found The Pickwick Club, the city's second oldest Gentlemen's Club, and found modern-day Carnival. [5]

Initially, in more civilized times, the club was not closed, members could extend the club's hospitality to the guests-the club was theirs to use gratis; but as older, more conservative and narrow-minded men came to lead the club, these vestiges of hospitality were lost and anti-semitism set in. Ironically, Judah P. Benjamin and the first Rex, Lewis Solomon, both Jewish, had been members of the club.[6]

Description

Entering from Canal Street, the entrance to the club is a 10x12 vestibule framed by sidelights between engaged ionic pilasters and columns, with wooden door inscribed in frosted glass the club’s initials BC, opening into a marble paved hallway. Adjacent, to the left through a solid mahogany door[7], is a well-decorated parlor, extending fifty-five feet deep from the front facade. Here can be found leather chairs, lace curtains, and rockers with foremost men of New Orleans discussing current events. There is a reception area with a large round table behind leading into formal and informal dining areas. The formal dining room is forty-five feet deep, with molded stucco ceiling cornices and large center ceiling medallion of floral designs, and mantels finished in period Eastlake Style replacing earlier marble mantel carved with cherubs and flute players. The bar, located behind the informal dining area, is made of oak along with the wainscot running around the room. The second floor has two rooms, the front, a former card room while the rear is mainly used as a sitting room but can be converted easily to a dining room, it is finished in oak with cypress doors and is attached to a billiards room, board room and lady’s water closet. [8]

Famous guests

In 1873, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery attended a luncheon.[9]

General Ulysses S. Grant lunched at The Boston Club in 1880.[10]

John J. Pershing visited on February 17, 1920.[11] [12] [13]

The Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor, February 21, 1950 [14]

It was customary, until 1992, for Rex (King of Carnival) and his queen to lunch at the club after the Rex parade during Mardi Gras. In addition, the Boston Club entertained the queen of the carnival and her court during the parade. [15]

Notable members

  • John Randolph Grymes, Founding Member, FFV, attorney in New Orleans, member of the Louisiana state legislature, U. S. attorney for Louisiana district, and aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans.[16][17][18]
  • Gen. Dick Taylor, President of the Club 1868-1873, FFV, was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general. [19]
  • Judah P. Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. He was also a member of the Union Club [20][21][22]
  • Edward A. Bradford was a lawyer and unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court. Law partner of Judah P. Benjamin[23].
  • Thomas Jenkins Semmes, President 1883-1892, was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Louisiana from 1862 to 1865. He was the 1st cousin of Capt Raphael Semmes, of the C.S.S. Alabama. [24]
  • S. H. Kennedy, father of Hugh Kennedy (New Orleans) Cotton Agent & Broker [25]
  • Victor Burthe, President 1866-1868, son of Dominique François Burthe, District Judge, Jefferson Parish [26]
  • Charles E Fenner, President 1892-1904, Associate Justice Louisiana Supreme Court 1880-1893, [27]
  • Dr E. S. Lewis, President 1904-1913, father of gynecology in Louisiana [28],
  • Arthur D Parker, President 1918-1921, brother of John M. Parker, founder of DR. G. H. Tichenor Antiseptic Co. [29]
  • LeRoy Percy was an attorney, planter and politician in Mississippi. In 1910 he was elected to the United States Senate, serving until 1913.[30]
  • Duncan F. Kenner, was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Louisiana to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. In 1864, he served as the chief diplomat from the Confederate States of America to Europe. Brother is law of Dick Taylor. [31]
  • John Slidell, was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. A native of New York, Slidell moved to Louisiana as a young man and became a staunch defender of slavery as a Representative and Senator.[32]
  • Pierre Soule was an Franco-American attorney, politician, and diplomat during the mid-19th century. Serving as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 1849 to 1853, he resigned to accept appointment as U.S. Minister to Spain, a post he held until 1855.[33]
  • John Hamilton Fulton was president of National Park Bank from 1922 to 1927. [34]
  • Eaton J. Bowers was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. [35]
  • Ernest L. Jahncke was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1929 to 1933.[36]
  • Dr. Robert Tayloe Cook, V, FFV, Medical doctor and head of radiology at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. Descendant of the Tayloe’s of Mount Airy, Virginia, his great uncle Henry Augustine Tayloe founded the Fair Grounds Race Course in 1838 with Bernard de Marigny.[37]
  • Paul C. P. McIlhenny was an American businessman and executive at family-owned McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco sauce and other Tabasco brand products at Avery Island, Louisiana.[38][39][40][41]
  • John Barnett Waterman was an American businessman, founder and executive at Waterman Steamship Corporation.[42]

Significance

The Boston Club is a social club comprised mainly of Anglo-American men. Its clubhouse has held lavish balls, regular daily lunches, and monthly dinners. Its events and social activities were the fodder for many newspaper and social columns at the turn of the 19th century and on into the 20th century. That a lavish club lifestyle could be centered around something as simple as a card game serves as a sign of prosperous times in New Orleans.

Horse Racing

Members of the Boston Club frequently patronized Jockey Clubs of the area, both the defunct Metairie Course (now the Metairie Cemetery) and the Fair Grounds Race Course, putting up high stakes purses to help offset the Jockey Club’s expenses. “The Boston Club…being composed of gentlemen who know ‘what’s what’...insured a numerous and distinguished attendance upon these occasions.” [43] Later noting “In the betting circles last evening.. The wagering was spirited and lively, and a good deal of money will change hands as a result.” [44] John Randolph Grymes owned philly Susan Yandal who raced in the first races at the Fair Grounds Race Course in 1838, his cousin Henry Augustine Tayloe was one of the proprietors along with local, Bernard de Marigny.

Homes of The Boston Club

  • 1841-1855: Merchants Exchange, 126 Royal Street
  • 1855-1862: 129/130 Canal Street
  • 1862-1865: Club closed
  • 1865-1867: 214 Royal Street
  • 1867-1884: 4 Carondelet Street
  • 1884: 824 Canal Street (then called 148 Canal Street)[45]

See also

  • Mystic Krewe of Comus
  • The Pickwick Club

References

1. ^Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs: With Map. Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City, W. H. Coleman, 1885, pg 95
2. ^Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs: With Map. Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City, W. H. Coleman, 1885, pg 96
3. ^Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 7.
4. ^Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 6-7.
5. ^New Orleans Carnival Krewes: The History, Spirit & Secrets of Mardi Gras, Rosary O'Neill, Arcadia Publishing, Feb 11, 2014.
6. ^https://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=creators/creator&id=12
7. ^Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs: With Map. Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City, W. H. Coleman, 1885, pg 96
8. ^Times Democrat. 4 June 1899. Quoted in Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 6.
9. ^Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 8.
10. ^New Orleans Times. 3 April 1880. Quoted in Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 8.
11. ^http://www.neworleansbar.org/uploads/files/When%20General%20Pershing%20took%20Berlin_7-2(1).pdf
12. ^The Haberdasher, Volume 71, Haberdasher Company, 1920
13. ^Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans, James Gill, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1997, pg 176
14. ^http://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp%3A5339
15. ^Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 9.
16. ^Dictionary of Louisiana Biography
17. ^Hemard
18. ^Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana: Giving a Description of the Natural Advantages, Natural History, Settlement, Indians, Creoles, Municipal and Military History, Mercantile and Commercial Interests, Banking, Transportation, Struggles Against High Water, the Press, Educational …, Henry Rightor, Lewis Publishing Co, 1900, pg 607
19. ^Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, T Michael Parrish, UNC Press Books, 1992, pg.67
20. ^Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, T Michael Parrish, UNC Press Books, 1992, pg.67
21. ^Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana: Giving a Description of the Natural Advantages, Natural History, Settlement, Indians, Creoles, Municipal and Military History, Mercantile and Commercial Interests, Banking, Transportation, Struggles Against High Water, the Press, Educational …, Henry Rightor, Lewis Publishing Co, 1900, pg 607
22. ^Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman, Robert Douthat Meade, LSU Press, Nov 1, 2001
23. ^Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana: Giving a Description of the Natural Advantages, Natural History, Settlement, Indians, Creoles, Municipal and Military History, Mercantile and Commercial Interests, Banking, Transportation, Struggles Against High Water, the Press, Educational ..., Henry Rightor, Lewis Publishing Company, 1900
24. ^Georgetown College Journal, Volume 27, Issues 1-28
25. ^Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs: With Map. Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City, W. H. Coleman, 1885, pg 96
26. ^Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs: With Map. Illustrated with Many Original Engravings; and Containing Exhaustive Accounts of the Traditions, Historical Legends, and Remarkable Localities of the Creole City, W. H. Coleman, 1885, pg 96
27. ^Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana: Giving a Description of the Natural Advantages, Natural History, Settlement, Indians, Creoles, Municipal and Military History, Mercantile and Commercial Interests, Banking, Transportation, Struggles Against High Water, the Press, Educational …, Henry Rightor, Lewis Publishing Co, 1900, pg 607
28. ^https://libguides.tulane.edu/famousalumni/ESLewis2
29. ^History of New Orleans by John Kendall, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1922
30. ^The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Oxford University Press, Oct 31, 1996, pg 178
31. ^Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, T Michael Parrish, UNC Press Books, 1992, pg.67
32. ^Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, T Michael Parrish, UNC Press Books, 1992, pg.67
33. ^Richard Taylor, Soldier Prince of Dixie, T Michael Parrish, UNC Press Books, 1992, pg.67
34. ^Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of …, American Publishers' Association, 1919
35. ^Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of …, American Publishers' Association, 1919
36. ^http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/bios/j-000002.txt
37. ^Times Picayune Newspaper, January 18, 2013, Obituaries
38. ^{{cite web|title=Paul McIlhenny, CEO of company behind Tabasco dies|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/paul-mcilhenny-ceo-of-company-behind-tabasco-dies_831286.html|publisher=Zee News|accessdate=24 February 2013}}
39. ^{{cite web|title=McIlhenny, CEO Who Expanded Tabasco Brand, Dies at 68|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-24/tabasco-maker-ceo-and-chairman-paul-mcilhenny-dead-at-68.html|publisher=Bloomberg|accessdate=24 February 2013}}
40. ^{{cite web|title=Paul McIlhenny, Tabasco-maker CEO, dies at 68|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57570950/paul-mcilhenny-tabasco-maker-ceo-dies-at-68/|publisher=CBS NEWS|accessdate=24 February 2013}}
41. ^{{cite web|title=Tabasco CEO Paul McIlhenny dies|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/24/us/tabasco-ceo-dead/|publisher=CNN|accessdate=24 February 2013}}
42. ^https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70193421/john-barnett-waterman
43. ^New Orleans Picayune, 1858
44. ^New Orleans Picayune, 1858
45. ^Landry. History of the Boston Club. p. 10-13.
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