Like the old Gentlemen's Clubs, the formal Athletic Club was for men only, some taking rooms there. There were billiard and card rooms, a dining room, and perhaps a parlor for women to take refuge on Ladies' Night, as well as bedrooms or suites for the young men.
Other sports clubs had their own "Club House" while still others met at a venue central to its members, like the Montreal Snow Shoe club met at the McGill gatehouse on Sherbrooke Street. The Clubs were for amateur athletes only.
The Athletic Clubs offered all manner of sports - lacrosse, cricket or croquet, tennis, squash or hand ball, bowling, bicycling or swimming, or perhaps skating, curling or snowshoeing.
High Wheel Bicycle Club Group Photo - circa 1885
Search others using keywords [name of sport] + club, association, etc then try adding town or state. Check local libraries and archives for information on local clubs.
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Relevant Links
The Gatehouse at McGill
An Athletic Club House - Thesis, 1900
Boston Athletic Assoc year Book 1890
London Bicycle Club Gazette, Vol I
The Second Annual Amateur Athletic... Sports (Races), England 1903
Athletic Clubs of America 1915
Sporting and Athletic Records 1897
Columbus Athletic Club 1922
Forty-sixth Games of the New York Athletic Club 1891
Souvenir of the Providence Athletic Assoc, Rhode Island 1899
Roster of the Columbia Athletic Club of Washington DC, 1889
Grand CWA Championship Meet: St John's Bicycle and Athletic Club, NB 1896
Club Book: Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn
Vancouver Cycling Club, meet of the Canadian Wheelman's of BC 1894
Voyage du Club le Canadien à New York 1887 (Snow Shoe Club)
New York - Turnvereins in der New York turn-halle, 1900
Annals of the Olympic Club, San Francisco 1914
The Olympian: Olympic Club of SF
List of Subscribers of the Victoria Skating Club of Montreal 1874
Victoria Skating and Curling Association of Toronto: list of members 1887
Schedule of games: British Columbia Amateur Lacrosse Association 1893
Potomac Athletic Club 1890
New Illinois Athletic Club 1906
Year Book and Roster, 1905: Missouri Athletic Club, St Louis
Toronto Athletic Club 1891
Athletic Queensland, 1900
Athletic Games and Reception, Company "I", 47th Regiment, NY 1903
New York Athletic Club, various
Ottawa Bicycle Club 1890
Souvenir and program of the 12th Annual meet of the Canadian Wheelmen's Assoc 1894
The Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette, Mass 1884-1886
Bicycle Club Directory of Massachusetts, 1894
Berlin Lawn Bowling Club, Kitchener Ontario 1905
Register of the Appalachian Mountain Bowling Club 1898
Rules of the Halifax Archery and Croquet Club 1873
Montreal Archery Club 1859
Junior Lacrosse League of Montreal 1889
Quebec Curling Club, list of members 1869
History of the Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club 1872-1917
St George's Cricket Club, NY 1859
Victoria Cricket Club, BC - various
Official Souvenir of Police Athletic Association of Greater New York, 1905
The Edinburgh Skating Club 1865
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