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The City Tavern was first built in 1796 and was restored by the City Tavern Association, founded in 1959. Its founders included Mr. Robert Calhoun Baker, Capt. and Mrs. Peter Belin (UNS, Ret.), Mrs. Denton Blair, Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Hon. and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Burling, Jr., Mr. Paul Callaway, Mr. John Cowell Colie, Mrs. Carley Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Andre de Limur, Mr. C. Emerson Duncan, II, Hon. and Mrs. Gordon Gray, Hon. and Mrs. H. Struve Hensel, Miss Elizabeth Houghton, Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. James, Mrs. Florence Stephenson Mahoney, Mr. and Mrs. Armistead Peter, III, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Peter, Jr., Mr. H. Alexander Smith, Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Young. The City Tavern has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
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