Milwaukee Press Club

Since its founding, the club has expanded its membership to include journalists working in other media, editors, publishers and individuals with a specific professional interest in the press.

It was finally overturned in August 1971, after female journalists and the general public created an outcry against the antiquated practice, and picketed the club's meeting place.

While the Milwaukee Press Club prides itself on its steadfast tradition of fostering journalistic camaraderie, it's led a vagabond existence in terms of its physical home.

[4] The club moved several times in the next 19 years before settling into the third floor of the Miller Building at the corner of Mason and Water streets in 1904.

Anubis, named after an Egyptian god, is a petrified cat that came into the Press Club's hands through means that remain murky.

One story has it that two reporters in the 1890s came across the cat at the State Historical Society in Madison, where it was taken after being found between the walls of a building being demolished in Darlington, Wis.

The Newsroom Pub hosts club Newsmaker Luncheons with Milwaukee and Wisconsin civic, business and organizational leaders, evening socials and events, and serves as a gathering place for the media and the general public.