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Phoenix Club

1922 USPC

1 Opera Place (later 1 East 4th Street)

  

Cincinnati, OH 45202

  
 

Chip below used from 1911 - 1921.  Best guess is that the person depicted on the chip is Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a roman aristocrat and statesman.

             

 

Chips below used from 1922 - ?
                                        
 

The Phoenix Club, founded May 1st 1856, was a social club for wealthy and prominent Jews.  The Club was located in Cincinnati at Central & Court.  The Phoenix Club maintained their clubhouse at this location until 1894 when the club built a new one at the corner of 9th & Race (the building still stands and is considered a landmark structure).
 
Description from 1879 Cincinnati Post - November 12th 1894
 

Below is a picture of the Phoenix Club as it appeared shortly after construction.  Also shown are the architects' rendering of the building.  Note that there are 4 card rooms on the first floor
 
From the 1897 Constitution of the Phoenix Club Description of the club in 1906
 
 

A little over a decade after moving into the new clubhouse, the Phoenix Club began thinking about selling the structure and in early 1911 did so. By the end of 1911 the Phoenix Club had moved out of the old clubhouse and into new quarters at the Hotel Havlin at the corner of Vine & Opera.  In 1921, after about a decade at the Hotel Havlin, the Phoenix Club moved its clubrooms to a new location: the Hotel Sinton. The chips with the picture of the Phoenix were used at the Sinton.  The Phoenix Club maintained clubrooms at the Hotel Sinton until the mid 1940’s when the club appears to have dissolved.
 
Advertisement from 1906 McClure's Magazine Postcard of Hotel Havlin circa 1912 Picture of Hotel Sinton