The Standard Club is a Jewish country club originally located in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 which later moved to suburban areas in Metro Atlanta

Metro Atlanta

The Atlanta metropolitan area or metro Atlanta, officially designated by the US Census Bureau as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States...

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History

The club started as the Concordia Association in 1866 in Downtown Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta

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 — their premises, the 1892 Concordia Hall, are still standing in the Hotel Row historic district. In 1905 it was reorganized as the Standard Club and moved into the former mansion of William C. Sanders on the east side of Washington Street between Fair Street (now Memorial Drive) and Woodward Avenue. The neighborhood, Washington-Rawson

Washington-Rawson

Washington-Rawson was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It included the area that is now the large parking lot north of Turner Field, until 1997 the site of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. It also included the intersection of the two streets for which it was named; that intersection's location is...

, became the heart of the Jewish community until the 1920s and would later be razed to make way for the Downtown Connector

Downtown Connector

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 interchange with I-20 and for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots (now Turner Field

Turner Field

Turner Field is a stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, home to Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves since 1997. Turner Field was originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium, it was completed in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics...

 and its parking lots).

In the late 1920s the club moved to Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta

Midtown Atlanta

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. The site was later acquired by its neighbors, the Yarrab Shrine

Shriners

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 temple.

In 1940, new quarters opened near Brookhaven

Brookhaven, Georgia

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, in what is now the Lenox Park

Lenox Park, Georgia

Lenox Park is a neighborhood lying mostly in the North Atlanta CDP in DeKalb County, Georgia, just east of the city of Atlanta border. It lies within the city limits of the proposed city of Brookhaven. Most of the office space in Lenox Park is used by AT&T Mobility and other departments of AT&T...

 business park, in 1940 and was located there until 1983. Today, the five buildings that form the headquarters of AT&T Mobility form a circle and overlook what was once the club's golf course and its lake.

In the 1980s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek, Georgia

Johns Creek, Georgia

Johns Creek is a suburban city in Fulton County, Georgia, USA, which incorporated December 1, 2006. It is named for a tributary that runs through the area. The city was created out of the northeastern part of unincorporated Fulton County...

in the northern suburbs.