Manhattan Athletic Club

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Manhattan Athletic Club
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Manhattan Athletic Club, 1889
Formation November 7, 1877; 147 years ago (1877-11-07)
Type Athletic club
Key people
Lon Myers, member and world-record-holding runner

The Manhattan Athletic Club was an athletic club in Manhattan, New York.[1][2]

The Manhattan Athletic Club was organized on November 7, 1877, and legally incorporated on April 1, 1878.[1][2][3] Its emblem was a "cherry diamond".[4]

It established an athletic cinder ash track at Eighth Avenue, between West 56th and West 57th Streets, in Manhattan, which opened in 1878.[1][3] In 1883, it secured grounds at the block between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, between West 86th Street and West 87th Street.[5] In November 1886, it secured a clubhouse at 594 Fifth Avenue.[6] The club established a new clubhouse at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 45th Street in 1890, with one of the largest gymnasiums in the world, at 100 feet by 110 feet.[6][7] Through 1917, boxing matches were hosted at the club.[8][9][10]

American runner and world record holder Lon Myers was a notable member of the club.[1] Other notable members included speed skater Joe Donoghue and runner Thomas Conneff.[11][12]

In 1893, with significant debts, its directors decided to dissolve the club.[13] Andrew Freedman became receiver of the Manhattan Athletic Club when it fell into receivership.[14][15] A new Manhattan Athletic Club was opened the following year.[16]

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