Identifier: briefhistoryofso00some (find matches)
Title: A brief history of the Somerset Club of Boston : with a list of past and present members, 1852-1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Somerset Club (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Clubs
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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n with the Club, probably the first of its kind inthe country. Here follows a copy of the call for the meet-ing of organization: — Boston, March 20th, 1852.Sir: The Subscribers to the Club, at the corner of Beaconand Somerset Streets, are requested to meet in their ClubHouse, on Friday, the 26th inst., at 7 oclock p.m., toreceive the report of their Committee; to establish a Con-stitution and By-Laws, and transact such other business asmay come before the meeting, preparatory to occupancy. John D. Bates,For the Executive Committee. P.S. The Club House will be open to the families ofmembers and their friends, on Wednesday the 24th inst.,during the day and evening. The property was held under an instrument in the formof an indenture, which begins as follows: Whereas by anindenture made on the Seventeenth of April in the year ofour Lord 1852 between Francis B. Crowninshield, Esq.,Samuel Hooper, Esq., and James Davis, the younger,merchant, all of the city of Boston, on the one part, and
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1#5£ - /a/: Somerset Club 5 Francis Bassett, Frederick H. Bradlee and David Sears, Jr.,all of said Boston, Esquires, who executed the same onbehalf of the members of the Somerset Club/ etc.Messrs. Crowninshield, Hooper and Davis became trustees,under whom the property was held for the benefit of theshareholders; but in 1855, 240 six per cent bonds, of #250each, to the amount of sixty thousand dollars, were issued,subject to a sinking fund of #1000 per annum, and sharesto this amount were retired. After twenty years, in 1871, the Club again felt it neces-sary to obtain more capacious quarters, and purchasedthe Sears Mansion, 42 and 43 Beacon Street, at a cost of#210,000, to which it removed the following year. The oldClub house was then sold to the Congregational Association,and was known as the Congregational Building. In 1896 itwas purchased by Houghton and Dutton, who in 1904 tookthe structure down, and erected on its site the westerncorner part of their present stores. The land up

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