Friday Morning Club, Historic theater in South Park, Los Angeles, United States

The Friday Morning Club occupies a six-story Italian Renaissance Revival building on South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles' South Park neighborhood. Inside are two auditoriums designed to hold roughly 2000 people and decorated in the classical architectural style of the original design.

Caroline Severance founded this women's club in 1891 with about 87 members, which grew to become California's largest women's organization. The group later moved into the Italian Renaissance building that stands today and remained an important social center for decades.

The club's name comes from its Friday-morning meetings, first held in 1891 in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel at Second and Broadway. Founder Caroline Severance had already started the New England Women's Club in Boston in 1868. Members included Sarah Bixby Smith, who served as president. From 1977 the Society for the Preservation of Variety Arts staged cabarets and revivals of early stage and radio dramas in the auditorium.

The building now functions as an events venue while also housing services and offices for a church organization. Visitors should check ahead about access, as the building's availability depends on scheduled events and services.

The building's painted side sign still reads "Friday Morning Club" above smaller text lines, a visible trace of its 61 years as the club's home. Across Figueroa Street, the 1925 Figueroa Hotel was also financed and managed by women, for business and traveling women.