Knickerbocker Club
location: 2
subject: Category:Organizations established in 1871
type: Q24229398
type: Thing
location: New York (state)
portal: New York City
type: Q43229
d: Q3197987
subject: Category:Culture of Manhattan
subject: Category:Upper East Side
subject: Category:Fifth Avenue
subject: Category:Upper class culture in New York City
type: Organization
description: gentlemen's club in New York City
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location: New York City
type: Gentlemen's club
text: The circulation of elites in America and the assimilation of new men of power and influence into the upper class takes place primarily through the medium of urban clubdom. Aristocracy of birth is replaced by an aristocracy of ballot. Frederick Lewis Allen showed how this process operated in the case of the nine Lords of Creation who were listed in the New York Social Register as of 1905: “The nine men who were listed [in the Social Register] were recorded as belonging to 9.4 clubs apiece,” wrote Allen. “Though only two of them, J. P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt III, belonged to the Knickerbocker Club, the citadel of Patrician families , Stillman and Harriman joined these two in the membership of the almost equally fashionable Union Club; Baker joined these four in the membership of the Metropolitan Club of New York ; John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller Jr., and Rogers, along with Morgan and Baker were listed as members of the Union League Club ; seven of the group belonged to the New York Yacht Club. Morgan belonged to nineteen clubs in all; Vanderbilt, to fifteen; Harriman, to fourteen.” Allen then goes on to show how the descendants of these financial giants were assimilated into the upper class: “By way of footnote, it may be added that although in that year [1905] only two of our ten financiers belonged to the Knickerbocker Club, in 1933 the grandsons of six of them did. The following progress is characteristic: John D. Rockefeller, Union League Club; John D. Rockefeller Jr., University Club; John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Knickerbocker Club. Thus is the American aristocracy recruited.”
d search: Q3197987
caption: In 2024
commons: Category:Knickerbocker Club
description: Club de caballeros en Nueva York @es
wikt: Knickerbocker
subject: Category:1871 establishments in New York (state)
subject: Category:Gentlemen's clubs in New York City
subject: Category:Clubhouses in Manhattan
hypernym: Club
type: Organisation
type: Agent
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text: Personal wealth has never been the sole basis for attaining membership in exclusive clubs. The individual and family must meet the admissions committee's standards for values and behavior. Old money prevails over new money as the Rockefeller family experience suggests. John D. Rockefeller, the family founder and the nation's first billionaire, joined the Union League Club, a fairly respectable but not top-level club; John D. Rockefeller Jr., belonged to the University Club, a step up from his father; and finally his son John D. Rockefeller, III, reached the pinnacle with his acceptance into the Knickerbocker Club .
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subject: Category:Delano & Aldrich buildings
type: SpatialThing
type: SocialPerson
lat: 40.76589584350586
subject: Category:New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan
name: Knickerbocker Club
portal: Food