The Explorers Club

The Explorers Club stands behind heavy doors in a six-story Jacobean revival mansion that looks more like a grand estate from Elizabethan England than a modern New York City building. Originally constructed for Stephen Clark, the grandson of the co-founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, the mansion became the international headquarters for this elite society in 1965. It serves as a quiet sanctuary for researchers and adventurers who have spent their lives traversing the furthest reaches of the globe. Every corner of the interior is dense with wood and leather, providing a backdrop for the artifacts of a century of field science.