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Mid States Wool Growers Association
Distance: 12.2 Mi9449 Basil Western Rd
43110 Canal Winchester -
Real Estate Investor's Association of Columbus
Distance: 14.1 Mi458 N Cassady Ave
43209 Bexley -
International Executive Housekeepers Assoc.
Distance: 14.7 Mi1001 Eastwind Dr Ste 301
43081 Westerville -
Business Professionals of America
Distance: 15.6 Mi5454 Cleveland Ave
43231 Columbus -
Ohio ACTE
Distance: 16.4 Mi38 Commerce Park Dr Ste D
43082 Westerville
Description
No one knows today who first conceived the idea of The Columbus Club. Perhaps one or more of the original founders had been invited to prominent clubs in New York, Chicago or Cleveland and became imbued with the idea of establishing such a private club here in Columbus. At any rate, some seventy-five or more men met on a cold evening in December 1886 in a room on the first floor of City Hall to discuss the founding of The Columbus Club. These men of considerable business or professional standing in the community believed that Columbus could and would support such a club where they could meet in privacy with the assurance of good food and service. Whatever the motive might have been, the result of this meeting was the organization of a club for purely social purposes. The membership was to consist of "all gentlemen of lawful age" properly recommended and passed upon by the Board of Directors. It is undoubtedly true that the mutual desire of the founders was to provide a convenient downtown location whereby the members could be assured of a private, dignified place of meeting to enjoy the privileges of the associations, which such an organization could afford. No man is living who attended that first meeting. Much of the history of what has happened since that day in December 1886 comes to us from the archives and records of The Columbus Club.