Each year, thousands of visitors to Rotary headquarters experience Room 711, a recreation of the office where, on 23 February 1905, Paul Harris met with three acquaintances to start a club based on “mutual cooperation and informal friendship.” Celebrate Rotary’s anniversary by taking a virtual tour of the replica. |
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On 23 February 1905, Paul Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram Shorey gathered at Loehr’s office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago, for what would later be k For the 1980 Rotary International Convention in Chicago, local Rotarians rented that same space and used period furnishings to re-create an early-20th-century office. When the Unity Building was set to be demolished in 1989, they dismantled Room 711 and arranged to rebuild it later at Rotary International World Headquarters just north of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Today, guests who tour the building can still visit the room. Experience a 360-degree view of the historic replica of Room 711 https://www.rotary.org/en/history-explore-interactive-view-room-711 |
nown as the first Rotary club meeting.