Black River Valley Club.

About Us

Phone: 315-788-2300

Fax: 315-788-2302

E-mail: events@brvclub.com

The Club was organized in December 1904, and Richard Hungerford was elected Chairman.  The name—Black River Valley Club—was adopted by formal resolution of the Board of Governors on January 13, 1905.

The BRVC is an outgrowth of the Union Club, which was organized in 1876.  In 1891, it acquired a stone home at the present site of the BRVC, with two mortgages: one from the Agricultural Insurance Company and the other from Smith T. Woolworth and Sidney Cooper.

The present BRVC building was completed in 1907, under the leadership of George C. Sherman, Orville E. Hungerford, and George H Babcock.

The Westminster clock in the lobby was a gift of Mary S Goodale in 1907; she was also the first woman member.  The portrait of Roswell P Flower, former NY State Governor and Congressman, which hangs in the reading room, was presented by his daughter Mrs. J B Taylor (Emma Flower.)

The Club has always been a vital factor in the business, social, cultural, and civic life of Watertown and Jefferson County.

To contact us:

 

The Black River Valley Club is located at

131 Washington Street

Watertown, New York 13601

(Downtown Watertown, between the Family YMCA & Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Building)

 

Phone: (315) 788-2300

Fax: (315) 788-2302

 

 

Membership offers a unique opportunity for business and social networking. Members can rely on business or social entertaining (in two main dining rooms, five private rooms, a Cabaret room, and a large banquet hall) that:

 

Provides an attentive staff who know you by name

Serves excellent food finely presented

Is in its own historic building, centrally located in Downtown Watertown

 

If you are interested in membership, please contact events@brvclub.com or call us at 315-788-2300.