One of two paintings of this impressive stone and iron screen.
 
The Metropolitan Club of New York is one of the great Gilded Age private social clubs, founded in 1891 by J. P. Morgan and fellow magnates and housed in a grand McKim, Mead & White clubhouse on Fifth Avenue at East 60th Street.
The club was created in March 1891 by J. P. Morgan and 24 other prominent New Yorkers after disputes at the older Union Club, and it quickly became known informally as the “Millionaires’ Club” because of its intensely elite membership.
To fund the project, each of the original governors contributed toward the purchase of the corner site from the Duchess of Marlborough, and by 1894 the club already counted around 1,000 members drawn from leading banking, industrial, and political families.
Completed and furnished over three years, the building opened with a governors’ dinner on 20 February 1894 and has since been designated a New York City landmark, with interiors including multiple dining rooms, reception spaces, and suites arranged around an internal court and later an Annex wing.
 
Interesting facts...
Strict dress codes, limitations on mobile phones, and an emphasis on privacy contribute to the club’s reputation as a place where business and political conversations can occur well out of public view.