Duquesne Club
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- 325 Sixth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Formation | 1873 (153 years ago) |
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| Type | City club |
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| Membership | ≈2,700 (men and women)[citation needed] |
General Manager | Scott Neill, CCM |
| Website | www.duquesne.org |
| Designated | 1976[1] |
The Duquesne Club is a private social club in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1973, it has functioned as one of the most exclusive social clubs in the world, and as a meeting place for businessmen, civic leaders, politicians, and royalty around the world.
The Duquesne Club was founded in 1873. Its first president was John H. Ricketson.[2] The club's present home, a Romanesque structure designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow on Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, was opened in 1890; an addition designed by Janssen & Cocken that included a garden patio, barbershop, and new kitchens was constructed in 1931.[2] The building achieved landmark status from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1976, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[2]
The Club voted to admit women for the first time in its history in 1980.[2] A health-and-fitness center was added in 1994, and the club was ranked as #1 City Club in America in 1997, an honor that would be repeated in 2001, 2003, and 2006.[2][3]
The Duquesne Club operates under 501(c)(7) Social and Recreation Clubs designation since ruling year 1945. In 2025 it claimed total revenue of $12,358,558, total expenses of $11,762,437, and total assets of $33,539,399.[4] The separate Duquesne Club Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity since 2002 devoted to historic preservation of the clubhouse and its contents, especially artworks. In 2025 it reported total assets of $701,401 and total revenue of $24,842.[5]
Notable guests
Among notable guests to the club are U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford,[6] Ronald Reagan,[7][failed verification] George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as Colin Powell, Polish leader Edward Gierek,[8], King Charles III (while he was Prince of Wales) and former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.[9] Oil businessman and millionaire Philip M. Shannon owned an apartment in the club and died there in 1915.[10]
