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The Everleigh Club at 2131-2133 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. Photograph from Minna Everleigh’s 1911 book “The Everleigh Club, Illustrated”
The Everleigh Club was a high-class brothel which operated in Chicago, Illinois from February 1900 until October 1911. It was owned and operated by the sisters Ada and Minna Everleigh.
Contents
1 The Everleigh sisters
2 Opening of the Everleigh Club
3 The club’s heyday
4 Standards at the brothel
5 Closing the brothel
6 References
7 External links
8 Notes
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The Everleigh sisters
Minna Everleigh was born Minna Simms in Greene County, Virginia on July 13, 1866 and died in New York, New York on September 16, 1948. Her older sister Ada (or Aida) was born Ada Simms near Greene County on February 15, 1864. She died in Charlottesville, Virginia on January 5, 1960.
The two created an alternative biography, which has long been accepted as factual, although Karen Abbott has debunked their story.
According to their story, Minna and Ada Simms were born outside of Louisville, Kentucky in 1876 to a wealthy lawyer who had fled to Kentucky from Virginia when Benedict Arnold invaded Virginia in 1781. The two sisters had been to finishing school and had proper social debuts. When Minna was seventeen, she says, she married a man whose last name was Lester who turned out to be abusive. Ada claims to have been married to Lester’s brother, who also turned out to be abusive. After both marriages had failed, they became actresses. Claiming their father died in the early 1890s, they said they came into a legacy of $35,000.
According to Abbott, whose research included an interview with the sisters’ great niece, Minna and Ada were born in Greene County, Virginia to Montgomery Simms, his second and third daughters. Their mother died when they were young, as did an older and younger sister. There were seven children total, although only five survived to adulthood. Although the family was wealthy at the time of her birth, they lost much of their wealth during the Civil War and the family lost their plantation when they couldn’t pay their taxes. There is no proof that either sister was ever married.
Stranded by a theatre company in Omaha, Nebraska, the sisters changed their last name to “Everleigh,” adapted from their grandmother’s correspondence (“Everly Yours,” she would sign) and opened their first brothel in Omaha in 1895. When the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition was held in Omaha in 1898 they opened a second brothel in the vicinity of the event in Kountze Park and quickly doubled their investment. They then decided to close their brothels and seek out a more affluent city.
Opening of the Everleigh Club
Prior to relocating to Chicago, the Everleigh sisters toured brothels in many cities, trying to find a location which had “plenty of wealthy men but no superior houses.” They were directed to Chicago by Cleo Maitland, a madam in Washington, D.C., who suggested they contact Effie Hankins in Chicago.
After buying Hankins’s brothel at 2131-2133 South Dearborn Street, they “fired all the women and completely redecorated the entire building with the most luxurious appointments available. Silk curtains, damask easy chairs, oriental rugs, mirrored ceilings, mahogany tables, gold rimmed china and silver dinnerware, perfumed fountains in every room, a $15,000 [equivalent to $369,205 in 2007] gold-leafed piano for the Music Room, mirrored ceilings, a library filled with finely bound volumes, an art gallery featuring nudes in gold frameso expense was spared. While the heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson thought the $57 gold spittoons in his caf were worth boasting about, the patrons of the Everleigh Club were obliged to expectorate in $650 gold cuspidors.” The Everleigh Club was described by Chicago’s Vice Commission as “probably the most famous and luxurious house of prostitution in the country.”
Prior to the opening of the Everleigh Club, Ada was responsible for recruiting talent for the club. She started by contacting her former employees in Omaha and spreading the word through brothels across the country. She conducted face-to-face interviews with all the applicants.
The brothel opened on February 1, 1900 with little fanfare, and turned away many of the clients who initially appeared because the Everleigh Sisters did not deem them suitable for the cliente they were seeking.
Once the club was open, Ada, who was quieter and more reserved than her sister, took on the responsibility of making sure the club was kept up to standards. She oversaw cleaning and renovations. Ada was also very much taken with the gold leaf piano in the Club and once claimed she rejected a suitor because he disapproved of the piano.
The club’s heyday
The clientele of the Everleigh House included captains of industry, important politicians and…(and so on)
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