 The Athelstan Club of Mobile, Alabama | |
| Founded | 1873 |
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| Coordinates | 40°34′19″N 94°32′13″W / 40.57194°N 94.53694°W |
The Athelstan Club, formerly The Athelstan Masonic Temple, is a private gentlemen's club in Mobile, Alabama, US, founded in 1873, tracing its roots to a Masonic lodge established in 1870.[1] By 1875 it had loosened membership to non-Masons and in 1876 formerly became The Athelstan Club. It admittedly admitted its first African American Member in 2011.[2]
The Athelstan Club is the eighth-oldest gentlemen's city club in the Southern United States, after The Oglethorpe Club (1870) and before The Louisiana Club (1877), offering the facilities of a traditional gentlemen's city club – regular hours, paid staff, a bar, a dining room, lodging rooms – that are associated with the English model of city clubs in the St. James's district of London. It is the oldest remaining gentlemen's club in Mobile after The Manassas Club closed prior to The Great Depression.
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