THE CHEMISTS' CLUB, NEW YORK 1 



THE Club occupies the lower portion of the new Chemists' 

 Building, at 50-54 East 41st Street, completed in March, 

 1911. This building occupies a lot 56 feet by 100 feet, in the 

 immediate vicinity of the Public Library and the Grand 

 Central Station. It is owned by a stock company whose 

 shareholders are chemists, manufacturers and companies em- 

 ploying chemical processes, and it is to be conducted for the 

 furtherance of chemical industry and research: in certain 

 eventualities, The Chemists' Club can acquire ownership of 

 the building. 2 The five uppermost stories not controlled 

 by the Club are constructed for chemical laboratories. 



The Club's quarters may be described as follows: The ves- 

 tibule opens into a large oak-paneled entrance-hall, one side 

 of which serves as an office, the other as a lounging-room; 

 a wide corridor leads thence to the main stairway and to the 

 auditorium, which occupies the entire rear half of the lot. 

 This auditorium seats 300 persons and has a lecture plat- 

 form completely equipped for scientific demonstrations : it is 

 decorated in classic style, and is a very lofty and well-pro- 

 portioned room. 



The upper floors of the Club House are reached by a very 

 beautiful stairway, quite independent of the public stairway 

 and elevators. The first landing leads to the auditorium bal- 

 cony and also to the lavatories. Then comes the first, or social, 

 floor, the front half of which, a mahogany room 52 by 23 feet, 

 is furnished for general social purposes; in the rear is the 



1 Reprinted from the Year Book of the Club for 1910-11. 



2 Dr. Loeb himself was the largest shareholder, and in his will left his holdings 

 to the Chemists' Building Company for cancellation, thus very materially reducing 

 the amount of stock to be acquired by the Club. [EDITOR.] 



