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'''The College Club of Boston''' is a private membership organization founded in 1890 as the first women's college club in the United States. Located in the historic Back Bay of Boston, Massachusetts, at 44 Commonwealth Avenue, the College Club was established by nineteen college educated women whose mission was to form a social club where they and other like-minded women could meet and share companionship.

==History==
In December 1890, 76 Marlborough Street, also located in Boston's Back Bay, became the first home of The College Club.<ref>{{cite journal | year = 1890 | title = The Alpha Phi annual .| journal = The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae | volume = 3-5 | pages = 79 | publisher = Alpha Phi | accessdate = February 19, 2011 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EdATAAAAIAAJ&dq=%2276+Marlborough+Street%22&pg=PA79}}</ref> The building at 76 Marlborough was purchased by Club member Mabel Cummings in 1893. The Club was designed by Mary Almy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc9.html|title=Guide to the Records of Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. and the Papers of Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning O'Connor, and Mary Almy MC.0009|website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Archives and Special Collections|access-date=2016-05-18}}</ref>

In April 1905, the College Club acquired the clubhouse at 40 Commonwealth Avenue, which contained an Old English drawing room and seven bedrooms, each of which "were furnished and decorated in the colors of various women's colleges: crimson rambler wallpaper for Radcliffe, blue silk curtains for [[Organization:Wellesley College|Wellesley]], white (with brass beds) for [[Organization:Smith College|Smith]], dawn pink and gray for [[Organization:Vassar College|Vassar]]."

In 1924, the Club purchased 44 Commonwealth Avenue, which was the family home of Royal E. Robbins, a major stockholder in the Waltham Watch Company. The brownstone townhouse was built in 1864 and was designed in the High Victorian style.

Club members took up the cause of educational philanthropy in 1985 and established The College Club Scholarship Fund, Inc. as an IRS 501(c)(3) designated [[Organization:Charitable organization#United States|charitable organization]]. The [[Finance:Financial endowment#Endowed scholarship/fellowship|endowed fund]] is administered by Club members. Each year since 1986, the Scholarship Fund has awarded college tuition assistance to deserving high school seniors from Boston Public Schools.

==See also==
* General Federation of Women's Clubs, founded 1890
* National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded 1890

== References ==
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'''Sources'''
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*{{cite news |title=Boston and the Woman's Club|first=Inez|last=Gardner|newspaper=New England Magazine|page=604|date=July 1906|volume=34}}
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100517015118/http://www.thecollegeclubofboston.com/scholarshipfund12.html Official website] of The College Club of Boston
* [http://www.cityofboston.gov/myneighborhood/?pid=0501206000 Neighborhood] of The College Club of Boston

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