City Tavern Club

City Tavern Club at 3206 M Street NW is Georgetown’s historic private dining and social club, occupying the Federal-period tavern building that the Georgetown commercial district has maintained as a significant historic structure since the eighteenth century. The club, which was established as the private membership organization in 1962, maintains the tradition of the American tavern’s historical role as the gathering place for the community’s commerce, the public debate, and the social occasion that the city tavern provided in the pre-revolutionary and the early national period of the American urban life.

The historic City Tavern building at 3206 M Street NW is one of Georgetown’s most significant commercial historic structures, reflecting the Federal-period commercial architecture that the Georgetown tobacco port’s prosperous merchant class built along the M Street waterfront. The tavern’s specific role in Georgetown’s commercial and social history, as the gathering place where the merchants, the shippers, the lawyers, and the legislators who used the Georgetown port and the nearby Federal government institutions conducted the business and the political discussion that the tavern’s public rooms facilitated, gives the City Tavern Club the historical identity that distinguishes the 3206 M Street address from the conventional private club’s commercial restaurant.

The City Tavern Club’s membership serves the Georgetown and Washington professional community with the private dining, the social events, and the club atmosphere that the historic M Street building provides. The club maintains the private membership format that the dining and social club tradition requires.

The club is open to members. The M Street address at 3206 NW is in the Georgetown commercial district. The City Tavern Club at 3206 M Street NW maintains the private membership that the Georgetown and Washington professional community uses for the dining and the social occasion that the historic tavern building provides in the Georgetown M Street commercial setting. The private club membership at the City Tavern Club provides the Georgetown professional with the dining room that the member uses for the professional lunch, the business dinner, and the social occasion that the private club setting enables in the specific historical character of the 3206 M Street Federal-period tavern building.

The Georgetown private club culture, which the City Tavern Club represents in the oldest American tradition of the commercial tavern’s role as the community’s gathering place, provides the Georgetown professional community with the specific social infrastructure of the membership organization that the Washington diplomatic and professional community uses for the convening of the collegial relationships that the Georgetown professional life sustains. The club is open to members at the M Street address. City Tavern Club at 3206 M Street NW Georgetown maintains the historic tavern building as the private dining and social club for the Georgetown and Washington professional membership. The club member who uses the City Tavern Club for the professional lunch or the social dinner at the historic M Street tavern address is using the Georgetown private club tradition at its historic Georgetown M Street address. The club is open to members.