| Founded in
1904, The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary, professional
society dedicated to the advancement of field research,
scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital
to preserve the instinct to explore. The overall mission
of the Club is the encouragement of scientific exploration
of land, sea, air, and space. The Club counts some 30
chapters with over 3,000 members representing every
continent and more than sixty countries. Over the years,
membership has included Roald Amudsen, Ernest Shackleton,
Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Sir Edmund
Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, former U.S. Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, and many other notables.
Located in a landmark site, the headquarters of The
Explorers Club was designated the Lowell Thomas Building
to recognize his more than fifty years of active participation.
The cornerstone of this building
was laid in 1910. The commissioner and future owner
of this five-story brownstone was Stephen S. Clark,
a prominent art collector and an heir to Singer Sewing
Machine Company. Brick, steel, glass, slate, concrete
and limestone were transformed by the architectural
imagination of F.J. Sterner into an urban “Jacobethan
revival” mansion.
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