Notable members have included President Harry S. Truman, Charles Lindbergh, Stan Musial, and Alan Shepard.

The Missouri Athletic Club opened its doors on Sept. 13, 1903, in the Boatman's Bank Building at 4th Street and Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis.

Designed by William B. Ittner, the present-day Downtown Clubhouse opened on March 1, 1916, with a gala celebration attended by 5,000 people.

The Missouri Athletic Club has renovated and expanded its West Clubhouse numerous times over the years.

[1] Upon its founding, the MAC joined the Amateur Athletic Union, which allowed its members to participate in the 1904 Summer Olympics, also held in St.

[1] As part of the AAU, the MAC formed basketball, swimming, track, baseball, boxing, wrestling, bowling, and billiards teams which competed throughout the United States.

[3] In 1987, the MAC began awarding the Hermann Trophy to the United States's top male and female college soccer players.

[1] The vote came after John C. Shepherd, whose membership in the all-male MAC and the all-white Bellerive Country Club had drawn national scrutiny and criticism, withdrew from his nomination to be Attorney General Edwin Meese III's deputy at the U.S. Justice Department.