The Advertising Club of New York was founded in 1896 and was first known as the Sphinx Club but by 1915 the name had become the Advertising Club of New York.

For most of its early history it was located at 23 Park Avenue

Park Avenue (Manhattan)

Park Avenue is a wide boulevard that carries north and southbound traffic in New York City borough of Manhattan. Through most of its length, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east....

 in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

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Stanford White

Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...

 building is one of the few surviving mansions on Park Avenue. It was completed in 1892 for the residence of J. Hampden Robb, the New York City parks commissioner, and his wife, Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. When it was complete one architectural critic called it "the most dignified structure . . . not a palace, but a fit dwelling house for a first-rate citizen."

This Renaissance Revival building housed the Advertising Club from 1923 to 1977. From that time it has been a cooperative apartment house. What served the club as its library is now the living room of the duplex apartment owned by Kenneth Jay Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane is an American costume jewelry designer.- Biography :Born in Detroit, Michigan he is an alumnus of Detroit Central High School, the University of Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design....

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