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Pershing Hall:
 * Add Pershing Hall charter
 * NY Times, "Pershing and Herrick Start Paris Drive For $300,000 American Legion Home There" 24 March, 1928

American Legion:
 * Add Paris Post #1

Myron T. Herrick:
 * Add membership and role in Paris Post #1

American Legion Members:
 * Add George Aubrey

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Reference 1 - Website

Reference 2 - Magazine

Pershing Hall Background
In September 1927, the American Legion held its 9th National Convention in Paris, France. During the convention, a unanimous resolution was passed authorizing the creation of a memorial building in Paris. The resolution read as follows:

"'Whereas, a permanent American Legion Building in Paris containing appropriate memorials of the World War, and to be the center of American Legion activities would be another tie binding closer France with the United States'."

In March 1928, U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick and General Pershing started a drive to raise $300,000 for the structure. Ambassador Herrick held a luncheon event on 23 March to kickoff the drive. The event was attended by General Pershing and a large number of French notables from the military and Foreign Office. French Premier Aristide Briand sent a letter with the following sentiments to the meeting:

"'The hardships of the great war brought deeds of heroism and devotion which are imperishable. They also created through comradeship in arms indissoluble bonds of Franco-American friendship. In keeping those bonds alive and in establishing a home for the American Legion in Paris you will establish a magnificent effort toward making those ties eternal. Rest assured that you will always receive from the government of the French Republic moral support for realization of this project .'"

On 28 April 1928, Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws for the building were signed in Paris. The nine articles of incorporation specified the following:


 * 1) Established the name of the corporation as AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING, PARIS, INCORPORATED.
 * 2) Established the location of the corporation in the U.S. state of Delaware.
 * 3) Stated the nature of the business.
 * 4) Authorized capital stock of the corporation at $320,000.
 * 5) Identified the name and place of residence of each of the original subscribers to the capital stock and the number of shares subscribed for by each.
 * 6) Established the perpetual existence of the corporation.
 * 7) Exempted the private property of shareholders from payment of corporate debts.
 * 8) Delineated specific authorities to the Board of Directors, and establishes a trustee entity in the event the corporation ceases to function.
 * 9) Specified rules for trustees selling, transferring, or disposing of shares.

Notable American signatories included Ambassador Herrick, General Pershing, and Alphonse Gaulin, (American Counsel General in Paris). Notable French signatories included Louis Marin (French Minister of Pensions).

Over the following year, money was raised and an organization was incorporated. Over $200,000 was donated by 14 organizations or societies for specific rooms.

Cities of Cleveland and Welloughby Ohio donated $50,000 for a room honoring Myron T. Herrick.

Elks - $30,000 for a memorial room YMCA - $25,000 Masons - $15,000 Loyal Order of Moose - $15,000

Yale, Princeton - Memorial tablets City of New York - 8,000 dead - memorial Daughters of the American Revolution - memorial room Knights of Columbus - $10,000 Salvation Army - $2,500

The Purchase
In 1928, the American Legion Building Paris, Incorporated purchased a building at 49 rue de Pierre Charron.

This building had been built at the end of the XVIIIth century for the Count of Paris. In 1910 it is the private mansion of M. de Lapisse.

The rue Pierre Charron was created in 1864, Napoleon III by Imperial Decree ceded the land to Duc Galliera. In 1878, the land at number 49 was given to the Comte and Comtesse de Paris by the Duchesse Galliera. In 1878 the land was sold to the Vicomte de Paris, and between 1879-1882 the original building and stables were constructed by the Vicomte.

General John Pershing is reputed to have moved into the mansion in 1917 and use it as the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force in France, although this has not been verified by credible sources.

Land cost $190,000, $350,000 into the building

On 07 August, 1929 the building was dedicated. The dedication ceremonies included 1. the building, 2. laying of the cornerstone, and 3. a banquet at the Hotel Palais d'Orsay.

A corporation under the laws of Delaware with authorized capital of $320,000 was formed, with General Pershing, the American Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, leading officials of the Department of France, and a few notable civilians as incorporators. The title of the corporation is American Legion Building, Paris, Inc.

And amendment to the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws was added article THREE on

Operations
Keystone, Chateau Thiery bridge

October 1929 official dedication ceremony

Organizations:
 * American Legion Department of France
 * American Legion Paris Post No. 1
 * American Legion Myron T. Herrick Post No. 4
 * American Legion Auxiliary posts 8 and 40
 * The Legion school
 * Gymnasium
 * Refreshment buffet
 * Post club room
 * Main assembly room

Activities:
 * American language and history lessons
 * Settling over 200 American/French orphans

Organizations:
 * Overseas Memorial Day Foundation

Memorial Rooms:
 * Knights of Columbus Memorial Room
 * Elks Memorial Hall

Senate Subcommittee Hearing
Statements by: An American shrine in Paris
 * Col. J. Monroe Johnson, representing the American Legion
 * Col. George E. Ijams, representing the Military Order of the World War
 * F.X. Callahan, representing the Knights of Columbus
 * Major X.H. Price, representing the American Battle Monuments Commission
 * Colonel Francis E. Drake, President of the American Legion Building, Paris, Inc.
 * Brigadier General Milton Reckord, Adjutant General, State of Maryland
 * The Honorable Scott W. Lucas, Congressional Representative from Illinois
 * Paul M. Herbert, President of the Pershing Hall Memorial Committee
 * Louis Johnson, past National Commander of the American Legion
 * Watson Miller, Chairman of the American Legion's Rehabilitation Committee
 * Col. John Thomas Taylor, Vice Chairman of the American Legion's National Legislative Committee
 * Ross Collins, former member of the House Appropriations Committee

Proposal to use $482,000 Stars and Stripes fund to pay debts and establish an endowment fund. It had been turned over to the Secretary of War, then the Treasury.

1990
"Fall of Dollar to Shut Pershing Hall in Paris - NY Times, 25 July, 1933