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The Lotos Club
the heir to a wholesale drug business and the great-grandson of Chief Justice John Jay. Richard Howland Hunt was the architect. The marble replace in the dining room was sculpted by Karl Bitter, an admired sculptor of his day. The Schie elins lived there until 1924.
Lotos history is crowded with stories of drama and signi cance. One example: When President Theodore Roosevelt assembled Japanese and Russian arbitrators for the purpose of ending the Russo-Japanese war, those dignitaries left a deadlocked conference one afternoon to retire to the Lotos bar where they miraculously found themselves agreeing. Shortly afterwards, points of agreement reached in the clubhouse were incorporated in the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the war.
The Lotos Club has exhibited the works of such masters as Gainsborough, Gibson, Hogarth, Huysmans, Pennell, Remington, Turner, Reynolds and Stanford White. Its exhibits continue to present the best of contemporary painting. And the walls of its panelled downstairs Grill are adorned by paintings of nudes by Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg and Everett Raymond Kinstler.
No history of The Lotos Club would be complete without mention of its State Dinners. This series
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