The Club at Franklin Square is a Private Club that overlooks the lush, ancestral trees of Franklin Park, the symbolic and geographic heart of a dynamic community.

The Cosmos Club stands as "the closest thing to a social headquarters for Washington's intellectual elite." So wrote Western scholar Wallace Stegner in his acclaimed work, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. Since its founding in 1878, the exclusive Cosmos Club on Embassy Row has adhered to its stated corporate objectives: "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art," and also "their mutual improvement by social intercourse."