Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Cosmos_Club_(Washington,_D.C.)

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	private social club
gptkbp:address	gptkb:2121_Massachusetts_Avenue_NW,_Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:admission	men only until 1988 nomination and election by current members women admitted since 1988
gptkbp:buildingType	gptkb:Beaux-Arts gptkb:Townsend_House
gptkbp:founded	1878
gptkbp:founder	gptkb:John_Wesley_Powell
gptkbp:heritageDesignation	gptkb:National_Register_of_Historic_Places
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:meeting_place_of	gptkb:American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science_(AAAS) gptkb:Philosophical_Society_of_Washington National Geographic Society (founded there)
gptkbp:membership	by invitation only
gptkbp:motto	Where men of science, literature, and the arts meet for social intercourse and mutual improvement
gptkbp:notable_member	gptkb:Alexander_Graham_Bell gptkb:Carl_Sagan gptkb:Edward_Teller gptkb:Herbert_Hoover gptkb:J._Edgar_Hoover gptkb:James_Smithson gptkb:John_Dewey gptkb:Vannevar_Bush gptkb:William_H._Taft gptkb:Woodrow_Wilson gptkb:Andrew_W._Mellon gptkb:John_Wesley_Powell gptkb:Gilbert_H._Grosvenor
gptkbp:notableEvent	site of founding of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) site of founding of The Wilderness Society in 1935 site of founding of National Geographic Society in 1888
gptkbp:number_of_Nobel_laureates_among_members	over 30
gptkbp:number_of_Pulitzer_Prize_winners_among_members	over 50
gptkbp:numberOfMembers	over 2,400
gptkbp:purpose	promote science, literature, and the arts
gptkbp:website	https://www.cosmosclub.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Frederick_H._Brooke
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6