Reform Club [SEP] architect
and 1914 8 per cent of the Club's membership had ties to the banking sector, some even holding directorships. While club members like Bram Stoker and Henry Irving mingled with Liberal bankers from prominent families like the Rothschilds and Goldschmidts, oftentimes women in theater did not have similar access or even the backing of guarantors needed to impress bankers of this caliber.
The Reform Club's building was designed by renowned architect Sir Charles Barry and contracted to builders Grissell & Peto. Construction began in 1837 and was finished in 1841. This
deterioration. This was done by architect Miguel Constanzó.
Reform War until 1923.
Like all other convents and monasteries in Mexico, this convent was disbanded after the Reform War in 1861, but its associated church continued to operate as such until 1917. The property became state property and the complex has housed a number of institutions such as the Jurisprudence School, the National Girls’ School and others until after the Mexican Revolution. From 1911 and 1922, the new Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), took over the