3-086-402 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

In Clubland - No. V: the Travellers' Club, 1898. 'The Carlton Terrace Front. No. 106, Pall Mall, better known as the Travellers' Club, is the home of one of the most popular and distinguished societies of Clubland...The Travellers' Club originated soon after the peace of 1814. To be precise, the year of its birth was 1819... The plans of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Charles Barry were selected [for the new building]. The Travellers' Club-House, which has been greatly admired, remains almost as it appeared in 1839, but for the addition of a smoking-room on the attic which is considered a blemish on the Carlton Terrace Front. The design is based on that of Villa Pandolfini at Florence, which is attributed to Raphael. The imitation, however, is far from servile, the proportions being lighter and more elegant than those of the model. The south front is remarkable for the grouping together of the three central windows of each floor, giving, as an essayist on the revival of the Italian style declared, "a piquant effect".' The Travellers' Club website, March 2026: 'Dress Code and Etiquette - The Travellers is a gentlemen's club. Ladies are welcome as guests.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.