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Shepard, Joan (May 3, 1987). "A towering landmark issue-air rights and wrongs". Shepard, Joan (November 18, 1987). "Tower above club turned down". May 18, 1945. p. New-York Tribune. May 25, 1893. p. Chicago Tribune. January 10, 1897. p. February 7, 1897. p. During January and February of each year, members of high society tended to congregate in New York City, and the club hosted several high-society events. For example, there were originally horse-drawn carriages traveling from the clubhouse to the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street, where club members could transfer to elevated trains. When the clubhouse opened, one writer for Stone magazine said the Metropolitan Club's building "afforded an agreeable contrast" to the variety of commercial and residential buildings nearby. The club's business center is exempted from the dress code and electronics ban. In addition to the business center, there are phone systems and fax machines throughout the clubhouse.

The modern-day clubhouse has three primary spaces: the Great Hall, the West Lounge, and the Main Bar in the former south lounge. The Great Hall has marble columns and walls, in addition to a marble floor with a checkerboard pattern. The second-floor rooms open onto a balcony surrounding the upper portion of the Great Hall. Scientific American Building Edition regarded the interior as successful though it described the Great Hall as cold and severe compared with the other rooms. There were a lobby, office, and waiting room to the left (south) of the vestibule and a hat room to the right (north) of the Great Hall. Above these rooms was the Strangers' Wing, a mezzanine with a dining room and reception room for non-members; this was accessed by a separate entrance next to the main entrance vestibule. The paneling on the main dining room's walls contained reliefs with depictions of Cupid, fruits, and other decorations, while the cornice was decorated with gilded console brackets and trophy motifs. Several rooms had paneled woodwork on the walls and English-oak beams on the ceilings. The attic ceilings were the lowest in the entire clubhouse.

When Stanford White died in 1906, The New York Times called the clubhouse "the handsomest and most complete clubhouse in the world". This type of cloth is called a woollen cloth. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole thing elevated above the floor. Another way to reduce energy consumption and costs is to use synthetic cloth rather than wool cloth, which requires much more energy to warm up. Vogue magazine wrote that "no more beautiful example of architecture is to be seen in New York". The Times wrote in 1945 that "the exterior and interior design are outstanding examples of Mr. White's genius". A critic for Architectural Record magazine thought the attic windows detracted from the design and that the cornice was too thick.

Edward E. Simmons was hired to design the ceiling of the Metropolitan's library, and V. J. Hedden & Sons designed the interior woodwork. Cupid motifs, Billiards Club Opening Costs both designed by Edward Simmons. These have included Harold Alexander, William R. Anderson, Edward L. Beach Jr., Winston Churchill, Garrison H. Davidson, Frederick H. Ecker, Frederik IX, Alfred M. Gruenther, Ingrid of Sweden, Douglas MacArthur, Richard C. Patterson Jr., Arthur W. Radford, and Albert C. Wedemeyer. All members have to pay an initiation fee plus annual dues; resident members paid higher dues than non-resident members. The club's annual events include Christmas celebrations, formal balls, golf tournaments, and game dinners. Potential members had to be at least 21 years old, and the Metropolitan Club's board of governors had to vote on whether to accept a prospective member. The executive committee also arranged with the New York Cab Company and with a cab operator to provide hansom cab service to club members. In a 1994 book about New York City's architecture, the writer Donald Reynolds stated that "the lines of the building are clean and fine and the proportions monumental".