Pacific-Union Club
The Pacific-Union Club is a private social club, located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It was founded in 1889 as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854).
The clubhouse was built as the home for the silver magnate James Flood and is often referred to as the Flood Mansion. It is considered the first brownstone constructed west of the Mississippi River and believed to be the only structure in the area to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
This club figured promenantly in the history of the west coast of the USA. Many prominent citizens have been active amongst it membership. To this day it remans an exclusive men-only club.
Prominent Members
- Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
- R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., Prominent Geologist
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense
- Randolph Apperson Hearst
- Tirey L. Ford, California Attorney General
- William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
- William Randolph Hearst III
- William S. Mailliard
- Wlliam Henry Draper III, Businessman
- Benjamin Dillingham
- William Reddington Hewlett, Co-founder Hewlett Packard
- David Packard, Co-founder Hewlett Packard and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Warren A. Bechtel, Founder Bechtel Corporation
- Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Former CEO Bechtel Corporation
- Riley P. Bechtel, CEO Bechtel Corporation
- Walter A. Haas, Jr. CEO (1958-1976) and chairman (1970-1981) of Levi Strauss & Co
- Henry J. Kaiser, Engineer and founder of Kaiser Family Foundation
- Paul B. Fay, Former Undersecretary of the Navy and PT-109 crewmate of John F. Kennedy.
See also
- Gentlemen's club
- List of American gentlemen's clubs
- List of Australian gentlemen's clubs
- List of London's gentlemen's clubs
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