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The club had been founded in 1898 at the home of Russ Avery, by four men, Avery, Leslie R. Hewitt, John D. Gish, and James B. Scott. Avery, Hewitt and Gish attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Scott, Harvard. The group formally incorporated on 03/12/1903 with 84 members. In its early years, it invited noted scholars to lecture before the group, including the astronomer George E. Hale and the philologist and President of the University of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler. By 1924, the University Club of Los Angeles had 1,700 members and was meeting in its third facility at 614 South Hope Street.

The University Club of Los Angeles occupied the Consolidated Realty Building in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, between 1910-1922.

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