Rand Club Building, Private members club in central Johannesburg, South Africa

The Rand Club Building is a six-story Edwardian neo-baroque clubhouse completed in 1904 at 33 Loveday Street, Marshalltown, Johannesburg. Architects William Leck and Frank Emley gave it a rusticated ground floor, porticoes and Doric pillars, with two half-moon wooden benches flanking the front doors. Inside are a 31-metre bar, a double-volume staircase under a mosaic dome, a ballroom, a private theatre and the Buckland Library.

The Rand Club was founded in October 1887, a year after Johannesburg itself, after Cecil John Rhodes and Dr Hans Sauer stopped at the corner of today's Commissioner and Loveday streets and Rhodes said the spot would do for a club. A single-storey first clubhouse was soon replaced by a two-storey Victorian building, itself demolished for the present third clubhouse, designed by Leck & Emley in 1902 and completed in 1904. In 1922 striking miners targeted the club and it was briefly barricaded.

The club's name comes from the Witwatersrand gold reef, and its Main Bar is where Leander Starr Jameson and the Transvaal Reform Committee plotted the overthrow of the Transvaal government. Members still gather in the Main Bar and the "21 Bar", and the club runs internal groups including a hunting, shooting and fishing club, a business club, a historical association and a theatre and cinema club.

The clubhouse stands at 33 Loveday Street, Marshalltown, with a second bar entrance at 97 Fox Street; the main doors face the Commissioner and Loveday intersection. Entry is for members and reciprocal club members, so arrange an invitation before travelling. The annual general meeting is traditionally held on 20 November.

The building was used on two separate occasions as an official residence for members of the British royal family during their South African tours in the 1920s and 1930s. Few buildings in Johannesburg can claim to have housed royalty, which sets this one apart from other grand addresses in the city.