Metropolitan Club
The Metropolitan Club was founded in 1915 as the Women's Athletic Club. Apparently almost immediately they commissioned Bliss & Faville to design this building for them as it was completed the following year.
It is a stately building, with an almost residential character about it and handsome enough, although I was a bit disappointed. One expects private clubs to try not to attract undue attention from the hoi polloi. And I understand that traditional Ladies Clubs are struggling these days to maintain membership, so perhaps money's short. And it may look like a bandbox inside...
Nevertheless, the building looked like it needed a good cleaning.