Athenaeum Club, London

Orientation

Originally, the club was founded in 1823, among others, John Wilson Croker and Thomas Lawrence was primarily intended for artists, writers and scientists. Accordingly, the club emblem adorns the head of the Greek goddess of wisdom Athena. The recording was therefore not subject to the same degree as with other clubs at birth, rank or wealth, but rather to their own performances of the applicants has in its respective discipline. Accordingly, the Athenaeum has produced in the course of his almost two hundred year history of fifty Nobel Prize winners, including at least one in each discipline. Famous the club is also known for its more than 80,000 -volume library. Over time, the scientific and artistic orientation was admittedly somewhat watered down by the increased uptake of politicians, bishops and nobles.

Members

The membership was originally limited to 1,000, but was raised in between from money problems ever again either temporarily or permanently; Today, the limit is 2,000. Among the most famous members of the Athenaeum include Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, Lord Palmerston, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Cecil Rhodes, Winston Churchill and Samuel Edwards. After the club for his female guests in 1936 a building was rented to the Carlton Gardens and 1961 at the clubhouse cultivated its own queenside, it now takes women since 2002 and as members on.

Clubhouse

The clubhouse was built by Decimus Burton in the classical style is at 107 Pall Mall. The directed towards Waterloo Place Main façade of a Doric portico with pairs of columns and a world created by Edward Hodges Baily golden Athena statue on the ledge. Under the roof balustrade a reinvented the Parthenon blue-white bas-relief frieze runs.