Original Vintage 1980s The Founders Suite Restaurant Menu Racquet Club Of Philadelphia Tennis Pennsylvania

The Racquet Club of Philadelphia was founded in 1889 and began in a modest facility at 923 Walnut Street with two rackets courts and the city's first regulation squash singles court. The club acquired the site at 215 South 16th Street in 1905 and completed its Horace Trumbauer-designed clubhouse there in 1907, one of the first reinforced-concrete buildings designed in Philadelphia and home to the world's first above-grade swimming pool, engineered by the Roebling Construction Company. Doubles squash was invented at the club by Fred Tompkins in 1907, member Jay Gould won the Olympic court tennis gold medal at London in 1908, and members George D. Widener, Harry Elkins Widener and John B. Thayer Jr. died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The clubhouse, whose rooms include the Founders Suite named on this menu, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

It measures 11" x 8.5" closed and 17" x 11" open.

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