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The Lotos Club
easily subserve. The Lotos drew those who rated sentiment above sordidity, achievement above assumption, learning above wealth. The Lotos soon let in such businessmen as were themselves students and lovers of humor and of wit, of literature and of art. These men enabled the Club to capitalize its ethical and art advantages on the side of solvency, as well as of literature and of art. The comforts of prosperity were not incompatible with ideals never lowered or lost!”
In the new clubhouse, the Art Committee organized monthly exhibitions, starting in February 1894. The physician and novelist Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle was the guest of The Lotos Club on November 18, 1894. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was then only 35 years of age.
In 1909, the Club moved to a capacious building at 110 West 57th Street. The mortgage had been held by a nancial genius of the time, Henrietta “Hetty” Green; member Andrew Carnegie bought it. The Club had demolished the building on the site and planned to replace it with a new structure, but the Panic of 1907 made that impossible until Carnegie placed at the Club’s disposal the amount it needed.
On the Club’s ftieth anniversary in March 1920, Club President Chester S. Lord said, “The Lotos Club has performed a public duty in entertaining
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