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In 1892, the Club moved to 556-558 Fifth Avenue, on the west side of the avenue south of Forty-sixth Street—the first home owned by the Club. The first formal dinner in the new clubhouse was held in honor of Mark Twain. The Club’s president, Frank Lawrence said, “The Lotos Club is ever at its best when paying homage to genius in literature or art.”
The club removed from the old house at the corner of Twenty-first Street, which it had occu- pied since 1876, to its new house early in May, 1893. Trial quickly demonstrated its perfect adaptability to all the club's uses. The art gallery, with its fine skylight, proved an admirable improvement over anything heretofore possessed by the club; Even when in use for exhibition purposes it makes a most attractive dining room. Before leaving the old house the members en- joyed a free and easy farewell dinner, which was remarkable for almost boyish high jinks and hilarity. Col. Knox, who lived in the house, and who retired earlier than some twenty years ago, was visited in the early hours of the morning and made to head a procession which paraded through the halls and parlors singing various convivial songs and rivaling the Clover Club of Philadelphia in good humored invasion of the proprieties.
A Brief History of the Lotos Club