Biography:

The Franklin Inn Club was founded in 1902 at 1218 Chancellor Street when nine Philadelphia cultural leaders met at the University Club to create a permanent city setting for the pleasures of dining and conversation. The Inn moved to its present location in 1907, when it bought and combined seven small row houses dating from the early 19th century at 205 S. Camac Street.
 
The Franklin Inn Club originally limited its membership to published writers and illustrators, and it soon became a meeting place for novelists, poets, scholars, and journalists. Today the club welcomes members with interests in many fields: the arts, education, social and political affairs, history, science, economics, medicine, and law. Early members wrote and produced plays, masques, musicals.