{{Short description|SF social club}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} [[File:James Flood Mansion (San Francisco) 4.JPG|thumb|Pacific-Union Club]] [[File:2009-0723-CA-PacificUnionClub.jpg|thumb|right|The James C. Flood Mansion is the home of the Pacific-Union Club]]{{Refimprove|date=December 2024}} '''The Pacific-Union Club''' is a social club located at 1000 [[California Street (San Francisco)|California Street]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], in the [[Nob Hill]] neighborhood. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854).
The clubhouse is the former [[James C. Flood Mansion|Flood Mansion]], built as a home for silver magnate [[James Clair Flood]]. It was designed by Canadian architect [[Augustus Laver]]. The reconstruction and expansion of the original mansion into the clubhouse was designed by [[Willis Polk]]. It is considered the first [[brownstone]] constructed west of the Mississippi River.{{Cn|date=December 2024}} Along with the [[The Fairmont San Francisco|Fairmont Hotel]] across the street, it was the only structure in the area to survive the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906]].{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
== Prominent members ==
Some notable citizens have been Pacific-Union Club members, including:{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
* [[John Barneson]], founder of [[General Petroleum Corporation]], [[General Pipe Line Company]] * [[Riley P. Bechtel]], CEO, [[Bechtel]] Corporation * [[Stephen Bechtel Jr.]], former CEO, [[Bechtel]] Corporation * [[Warren A. Bechtel]], founder of [[Bechtel]] Corporation * [[Benjamin Biaggini]], former president and CEO, [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] * [[William Lane Booker]], British diplomat * [[Benjamin Dillingham]] * [[William Henry Draper III]], businessman * [[Paul B. Fay]] Jr., (deceased) former Undersecretary of the Navy and PT squadron mate of [[John F. Kennedy]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/THE-CHOSEN-FEW-S-F-s-exclusive-clubs-carry-on-2740755.php|title=THE CHOSEN FEW / S.F.'s exclusive clubs carry on traditions of fellowship, culture -- and discrimination|last=Lara|first=Adair|date=2004-07-18|website=SFGate|access-date=2019-01-26}}</ref> * [[Tirey L. Ford]], former [[California Attorney General]] * [[Henry F. Grady]], first [[US Ambassador to India]]; Dean of the [[Haas School of Business|Commerce Department]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]; President of [[American President Lines]] * [[Walter A. Haas Jr.]], CEO (1958–1976) and chairman (1970–1981) of [[Levi Strauss & Co]] * [[Randolph Apperson Hearst]] * [[William Randolph Hearst Jr.]] * [[William Randolph Hearst III]] * [[Bill Hewlett|William Redington Hewlett]], co-founder of [[Hewlett-Packard]] * [[Henry J. Kaiser]], engineer and founder of [[Kaiser Family Foundation]] * [[William S. Mailliard]], former [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] (1953-1974) * [[Robert McNamara]], former [[United States Secretary of Defense|U.S. Secretary of Defense]] * [[David Packard]], co-founder of [[Hewlett-Packard]] and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense * [[R. A. F. Penrose Jr.]], prominent geologist * [[Herman Phleger]], founder of Brobeck Phleger and Harrison, former legal advisor of the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]] * [[Donald J. Russell]], former president, [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] * [[Charles R. Schwab]], founder of [[Charles Schwab Corporation]] * [[Plácido Vega y Daza]], former General and Governor of the Mexican state [[Sinaloa]]. He descended directly from Christopher Columbus' great-great grandson, the Admiral and 3rd Duke of Veragua. General Vega y Daza also became a vice-president of the club. * [[Caspar Weinberger]], former [[United States Secretary of Defense|U.S. Secretary of Defense]]
==Pacific Union Club Punch== Pacific Union Club Punch is a drink named after the Pacific-Union Club in [[William "Cocktail" Boothby]]'s 1908 work ''[[The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them]]''<ref name="Boothby">Boothby, William "Cocktail". ''The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them'', 1908. Photographed at San Francisco Public Library Historical Materials Collection [https://flickr.com/photos/joegratz/336861830/in/photostream/] on December 28, 2006.</ref> with the recipe: <blockquote>For a party of ten. Into a large punch-bowl place ten tablespoonfuls of bar sugar and ten tablespoonfuls of freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice. Add two jiggers of [[Curaçao liqueur|Curaçao]] and dissolve the whole in about a quart of effervescent water. Add two quarts of [[Champagne (wine)|champagne]] and one bottle of good [[cognac]]. Stir thoroughly, ice, decorate and serve in thin glassware.</blockquote>
==See also== * [[List of American gentlemen's clubs]]
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