Queen Adelaide Club
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The Queen Adelaide Club is an exclusive women's club, similar to a gentlemen's club, in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide.
The club is named for Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, after whom the city of Adelaide was named. Founded in 1909, the club was set up by women of the Adelaide Establishment "who wanted a social centre with a certain standard of living and were prepared to pay for it".[1]
The club is located at the corner of North Terrace and Stephens Place in the city centre, a short distance east along North Terrace from its previously all-male equivalent, the Adelaide Club, established in 1864.
Unlike the purpose-built Adelaide Club building, the Queen Adelaide Club occupies late 19th and early 20th Century buildings which had originally been residences and doctors' consulting rooms.[2]
When first established, the club offered residential accommodation.[1]
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