Sociëteit De Witte, Members club next to Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands.
Sociëteit De Witte is a private members club located at Plein 24 in central The Hague, occupying a neoclassical building that is listed as a Rijksmonument. The structure is made up of several connected parts, with symmetrical facades and Art Deco details visible from the outside.
The club was founded in 1782 by a group of young officials who first met in a downtown coffee house. In 1870 it moved to its present address on the Plein, where the building took on the form it has today.
Sociëteit De Witte is known in The Hague as a gathering place for people from politics, law, and public life. Visitors walking past the building on the Plein can see through its windows into rooms that still carry the feel of a long-standing social tradition.
The building sits on the Plein in central The Hague, within easy walking distance of other historic landmarks in the area. Since this is a private club, access to the interior is reserved for members and their guests.
Although the club was open only to men for more than two centuries after its founding, it admitted women as full members with voting rights in 1998. Within a few years, hundreds of women had joined the club.
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