Building History

The Olympic Club had a membership of approximately 400 men in 1872, and maintained its clubhouse in a building at 35 Sutter Street. A description of the club in the San Francisco City Directory, 1872, said: “The Olympic Club is at present in a very flourishing condition, having regularly organized classes in gymnastics, boxing and fencing, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The new rooms of the association are most admirably adapted to the purposes of the organization. The apparatus is extensive and complete, and the accommodations are on a scale commensurate with its increasing importance.” At this time its officers included: J.K. Wilson, President; W.R. Bunker, Vice President; M.H. Benjamin, Secretary; F.C. Havens, Treasurer; W.S. Lawton, Superintendent and Leader; Charles B. Hart, Instructor in Boxing.(See San Francisco Directory, for the Year Commencing March, 1872, [San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, Publisher, 1872], p. 911.)

With its well-heeled membership, the Olympic Club also maintained the Olympic Club Building Association in 1872. It was incorporated on 05/15/1868, and had capital of $60,000 by 1872. It had 600 shares by 1872 and held meetings at 35 Sutter Street on the first Wednesday of each month. Its officers included: John McComb, President; George Kenny, Secretary; P. Taylor, Treasurer.(See San Francisco Directory, for the Year Commencing March, 1872, [San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, Publisher, 1872], p. 911.)

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