Cosmos Club

Cosmos Club
	Cosmos Club in December 2017
Formation	1878
Type	Private social club
Tax ID no.	53-0052500
Location	2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW; Washington, D.C., U.S.;
Services	Hotel (50 rooms), dining, athletics, meetings
Website	cosmosclub.org
	Cosmos Club
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location of Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°54′41.3″N 77°2′51.6″W
NRHP reference No.	73002079
Added to NRHP	April 3, 1973

The Cosmos Club is a 501(c)(7) private social club in Washington, D.C., that was founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878 as a gentlemen's club for those interested in science. Among its stated goals is, "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art and also their mutual improvement by social intercourse."

Cosmos Club members include three United States presidents, two vice presidents, U.S. Supreme Court justices, artists, writers, businessmen, government officials, journalists, scientists, and university presidents, 36 Nobel Prize winners, 61 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 55 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. In 1988, the Club opened to women.

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