Co-founded and co-owned by Joe & Brittney Cooke

The Urbane Arts Club

A house for the arts. A home for the evening. A club for the curious.

The Urbane Arts Club illuminated at night

About

Built as a home for an artist, The Urbane remains a house for the arts: a Victorian mansion that has spent its whole life in the company of artists, conspirators and good parties.

Born from the Urbane Conspirators, an event series with a simple dream: a fun-filled space where the arts have a platform, conversations flow and ideas are exchanged with joy. This building is that dream made real. A century after this house first became a private club and speakeasy, we're bringing that electric spirit roaring back to life.

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The house

  • Art Nouveau Piano Room
  • Art Deco Gallery Parlor
  • Six Bedrooms
  • Courtyard & Wild Flower Garden

Join. Host. Attend.

Make the house yours.

Membership & coworking

Work from a Victorian mansion, Monday to Friday.

Community, exhibitions, happy hours and a desk with a century of stories. From $125/month.

Private events

Gather in a 1920s ballroom.

Weddings, b'nai mitzvahs, birthdays and gatherings: 80 seated, 120 standing, with six bedrooms upstairs.

Cultural programming

Art on every wall and poetry ringing through the halls.

Literary salons, jazz nights, immersive theater, workshops, life drawing, film screenings and courses.

A literary reading in The Urbane salon

The house through time

A century as a home for the arts.

1890s

The Artist’s House

Built as a home for an artist, a purpose the house has never really given up.

1910

Given to the Neighborhood

Donated for community use; the house begins its long life as a gathering place.

1924

The Capital Club

A respectable business club concealing a secret: a speakeasy. The parties were, by all accounts, excellent.

1930s

The Justine

A dining club and hall: white tablecloths in the ballroom, conversation in the parlors.

1942–2016

Jewish Veterans Club & Synagogue

Seven decades of service, fellowship and faith under this roof.

2022

The Urbane Arts Club

The house becomes an arts club again in the centenary year of its first life as a private club and speakeasy.