Notable members have included President Herbert Hoover and conservationist John Muir.

The facility included a private dining room, a forum for after-dinner speakers, and guestrooms.

The Club quickly outgrew the Sutter Street building and, in 1903, Club President William Bowers Bourn II hired architect Willis Polk to design a new clubhouse at the corner of Sutter and Van Ness Streets.

Before the plans could be developed or the site purchased, however, the Sutter Street clubhouse was destroyed by fire in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

[1] In 1988, under pressure from anti-discrimination lawsuits and judicial trends, the University Club agreed to accept women as members.