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== Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York ==
[[File:Yale Club high jeh.JPG|thumb|[[The Yale Club of New York City]]'s main entrance on Vanderbilt Avenue in [[Midtown Manhattan]], home of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York|alt=]] Members of Delta Kappa Epsilon who have completed their undergraduate education are eligible for membership in The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dke.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/new-member-education-manual-2020.pdf|title=Delta Kappa Epsilon New Member Education Manual|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> The DKE Club was founded on May 9, 1885,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.godeke.org/History/History_2.htm|title=A Panorama of DKE by Duncan Andrews|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> occupying several clubhouses in [[Midtown Manhattan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dkeclubny.com/club-history|title=More Than A Century of Joviality by Henry T. Berry, Lambda '51 (Deceased) and updated by Clint Blume, III Mu '79|access-date=August 5, 2020}}{{sic}}</ref> including [[30 West 44th Street]] which it purchased from [[The Yale Club of New York City]] in 1916.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/YaleClubofNewYorkCity_FINALREPORT.pdf|title=NYC Landmark Preservation Commission Landmark Designation Report "(former) Yale Club of New York, now Penn Club"|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> After renovations totaling $75,000, the clubhouse opened in January 1917. However, just nine years later the Club relocated again when it sold the building to the Army and Navy Club of New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/04/1901-yale-club-now-penn-club-no-30-west.html|title=Daytonian in Manhattan "The 1901 Yale Club (now Penn Club) -- No. 30 West 44th Street"|date=28 April 2012|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref>

Partially due to the [[Great Depression]], in 1932, the DKE Club entered into an affiliation with the Yale Club of New York whereby members would have the same access to its clubhouse and facilities as the 11,000 members of the Yale Club itself.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yaleclubnyc.org/affiliates/dke|title=The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York In residency at The Yale Club of New York City|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> Designed by [[James Gamble Rogers]], the clubhouse is located at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue across from [[Grand Central Terminal]]. Upon opening its doors in 1915, the building became the largest clubhouse in the world and continues to be the largest college clubhouse in existence today.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yaleclubnyc.org/history|title=History of The Yale Club|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref>

The club has often hosted dinners and other events for notable alumni members of the fraternity such as polar explorer [[Robert Peary]] (who took a Deke flag to the [[North Pole]] with him in 1909).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fotw.info/flags/us_dke.html|title=FOTW Flags Of The World website: Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (U.S.)|access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref>