Its name is derived from the English saint Botolph of Thorney.
Among the club's other activities in its quarters at 2 Newbury Street, it hosted an extensive and long-running series of fine arts exhibits, particularly new work from painters of the American Impressionists: Dennis Miller Bunker, Dodge MacKnight, Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr. (in a 1912 dual exhibition with animalier sculptor Albert Laessle[1]) and Willard Metcalf, who first showed his landscape May Night at the club in 1906.
The club also exhibited work by Wilton Lockwood,[2] Adelaide Cole Chase, Frances C. Houston, and the sculptor Bela Pratt.
[4] Among its members were the architect Charles Follen McKim,[5] Boston composer Frederick Converse,[6] Sculptor Cyrus Dallin,[4] artist William McGregor Paxton,[4] and U.S. Army brigadier general Charles Brewster Wheeler.
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