Haagsch Club, Private Club
Lange Voorhout 40 (1631)
Groote Sociëteit Haagsche Club/Plaats Royaal
Private club since 1895
No public access
Networking – to see and be seen – has always been important. So everyone who wanted to wield influence had to be part of it. The prime networking season ran from January to Easter, when people were in town and not at their poorly heated country estates. On one chosen day per week, well-to-do hostesses would open their homes to visitors of their own kind. People enjoyed dinners, banquets, and evening games or talked business and exchanged gossip at encounters at the concert hall or theater.
The Groote [large] Club was founded in 1748 by and for ‘orangist’ gentlemen, political supporters of the Prince of Orange. One of its first members was Stadtholder Willem IV, who hailed from the northern province of Friesland and who had to be introduced to The Hague society. Membership was restricted to the aristocracy and nobility (such as Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer-Obdam), and to foreign diplomats, dignitaries and high military officers. In 1895, the club moved from its quarters at the corner of the Lange Houtstraat and the Korte Voorhout to its current location at Lange Voorhout 40 and changed its name to Haagsche Club.
Groote Sociëteit Haagsche Club/Plaats Royaal
Private club since 1895
No public access
Networking – to see and be seen – has always been important. So everyone who wanted to wield influence had to be part of it. The prime networking season ran from January to Easter, when people were in town and not at their poorly heated country estates. On one chosen day per week, well-to-do hostesses would open their homes to visitors of their own kind. People enjoyed dinners, banquets, and evening games or talked business and exchanged gossip at encounters at the concert hall or theater.
The Groote [large] Club was founded in 1748 by and for ‘orangist’ gentlemen, political supporters of the Prince of Orange. One of its first members was Stadtholder Willem IV, who hailed from the northern province of Friesland and who had to be introduced to The Hague society. Membership was restricted to the aristocracy and nobility (such as Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer-Obdam), and to foreign diplomats, dignitaries and high military officers. In 1895, the club moved from its quarters at the corner of the Lange Houtstraat and the Korte Voorhout to its current location at Lange Voorhout 40 and changed its name to Haagsche Club.
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