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The Montgomery Country Club is a privately owned club in Montgomery, Alabama, with a history going back to 1894. It started as the Beauvoir Club, a social club for men founded in 1894. The club was likely named for the country estate of Confederate president Jefferson Davis,[1] and catered to the white gentry of Montgomery's population. It was housed first on South Perry Street, at the time the most fashionable street in Montgomery, and in 1907 moved to the top floor (with a roof garden and penthouse) of a newly-built 12-story building in downtown Montgomery. In the 1930s it moved again, to occupy its current location on Narrow Lane Road, adjacent to a golf course.
Club members were local notables, many of whom had deep ties to the Confederacy, and the club played host to organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy.[2] It excluded Jews and African Americans until the 1990s.