Ardsley Club

The Ardsley Country Club or Ardsley Club is a country club in the United States. It was founded in August 1895 to "cater to industrialists" such as Amzi Barber, J. P. Morgan, the Rockefeller brothers, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

In 1892, Amzi L. Barber bought the property known as "Ardsley Towers" in Irvington, New York. The property was built by Cyrus W. Field for his son, whose financial difficulties made a sale of the property necessary. Barber developed the 400-acre (160 ha) property into Ardsley Park and Ardsley Country Club. Barber, a real-estate developer, had the idea that the homes he developed in Ardsley Park would be purchased by members of a neighboring country club. According to the New York Times, "this sense of symbiotic interchange between the residents of the surrounding community and the club helped create a cozy, if undeniably exclusionary, enclave."

The Ardsley Country Club was founded in August 1895 to cater to industrialists. Original members included Amzi Barber, William and John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt.Ashbel P. Fitch was a member of the Ardsley Club upon his death in 1904. Founding members also included members of the Gould and Whitney families. According to author and club member Kate Buford, the club was "proof that two groups of society - the robber barons and old New York - would blend." As of March 1896, the club's board of governors had 21 members, including John D. Archbold, Amzi Barber, Walston H. Brwn, William L. Bull, Frederick L. Eldridge, Samuel Goodman, Edwin Gould, E. G. Janeway, Cyrus Field Judson, William F. Judson, George H. Mairs, Major O. J. Smith, Philip Schuyler, General Samuel Thomas, John T. Terry, John T. Terry, Jr., Roderick Terry, Henry Villard, Charles C. Worthington, John Brisbain Walker, and Lucien Warner. Among other prominent members at the time were H. Walter Webb and Walter W. Law,.

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