Their clubhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco.

In 1941 during World War II, the club extended dining privileges to women working in the Red Cross Motor Corps.

[5] In 2004, while other women's club had declining membership in San Francisco, the Metropolitan was the largest partly through offering members incentives to recruit.

The architectural partnership of Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville designed the clubhouse in an Italian Renaissance Revival style influenced by palazzos of Florence.

[4] The interior includes a formal lobby with an ionic order of paired columns and pilasters supporting beams treated as an entablature.