List of debutante balls in the United States

The list of debutante balls in the United States aims to include notable debutante balls held in the United States.

Alabama[]

• Birmingham:
  • The Ball of Roses^[1]
• Mobile
  • The Camellia Ball,^[2] held the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

A souvenir recording released by Verve Records in the summer of 1959 featuring longtime San Francisco bandleader Ernie Heckscher playing for The Cotillion at The Fairmont. The cover photo models are some of the previous winter's debutantes and their escorts

California[]

• Los Angeles:
  • Las Madrinas Ball^[3]
  • Peninsula Ball - ^[4]
  • Bal Blanc de Noel - presentation of Les Fleurettes ^[5]

District of Columbia[]

• Washington, D.C.:
  • The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball^[6]

Florida[]

• Tampa:
  • Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Debutante Ball^[7]
• Sarasota:
  • The Debutante Program of Sarasota & Manatee Counties^[8]

Indiana[]

• Indianapolis:
  • Presentation of Daughters, Held since 1950 during the holiday season, the Presentation is a biennial cotillion of The Dramatic Club of Indianapolis (founded 1889).^[9]

Louisiana[]

• New Orleans
  • The Pickwick Club
  • The Twelfth Night Revelers (TNR)
  • Society of the War of 1812 in Louisiana
  • Le Debut des Jeunes Filles de la Nouvelle Orleans
  • the Bachelors’ Club
  • the Debutante Club
  • the Mid-Winter Cotillion
  • the Original Illinois Club
  • the Young Men Illinois Club
  • Rex Mardi Gras ball
  • Krewe of Proteus
  • Knights of Momus
  • Mistick Krewe of Comus
  • Elves of Oberon
  • Krewe of Athenians
  • The Atlanteans^[10]Krewe of Nereus; Grand Ball of Osiris

Maryland[]

• Washington D.C.:
  • Gridiron Club Dinner
  • United States presidential inaugural balls
  • Russian Ball, Washington, D.C.
  • Assembly Club of Hagerstown, MD

Massachusetts[]

• Boston:
  • The Boston Cotillion, which benefits the Vincent Memorial Hospital.^[11]

Michigan[]

• Detroit:
  • ^[12]

Missouri[]

• Kansas City:
  • The Jewel Ball, founded in 1954, which benefits the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kansas City Symphony.^[13]
• St. Louis:
  • The Veiled Prophet Ball, founded in 1878, which caters to the members of the Veiled Prophet Organization, a secret society of prominent St. Louisans
  • Fleur de Lis Ball, a Roman Catholic ball founded in 1959, named after the symbol associated with French kings and the city's French heritage, which raises money for the Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.^[14]

Nebraska[]

• Omaha:
  • Omaha Symphony Debutante Ball was established in 1966 as an annual fund-raising event traditionally held on December 27.^[15]

New York[]

• New York City:
  • Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
  • The International Debutante Ball, held each even-numbered year
  • The Viennese Opera Ball in New York

The Rochester Bachelors' Cotillion in 1964.

• Rochester:
  • The Rochester Bachelors' Cotillion was founded in 1950 by a group of single young men from some of Rochester's social circles that wished to repay their social debt. It is a white tie ball held annually at the Genesee Valley Club.^[16]

North Carolina[]

• Cary:
  • The Cary Debutante Society Ball^[17]
• Durham:
  • ^[18]
• Gastonia:
  • Gastonia Debutante Ball^[19]
• Greensboro:
  • The Greensboro Symphony Presentation Ball^[20]
• Greenville:
  • Carolinian Debutante Ball^[21]
• Raleigh:
  • The Terpsichorean Society Debutante Ball
• Wilmington:
  • North Carolina Azalea Festival^[22]

Ohio[]

• Cleveland:
  • The Assembly Ball, presented by The Recreation League of Cleveland^[23] annually since 1937 at The Union Club.^[24]

Pennsylvania[]

• Pittsburgh:
  • Cinderella Ball, founded in 1924.^[25]
• Philadelphia:
  • The Philadelphia Charity Ball, founded in 1881.^[26]

South Carolina[]

• Charleston:
  • The St. Cecilia Ball^[27]
• Lexington
  • The Lexington Cotillion Holiday Ball^[28]
• Greenville: The Assembly

Texas[]

• Laredo:
  • The Society of Martha Washington Debutante Ball^[29]
• Tyler:
  • The Texas Rose Festival^[30]
• Dallas:
  • The Idlewild Club^[31]
• San Antonio:
  • The Chairty Ball^[32]
• Fort Worth:
  • Steeplechase Ball^[33]

Virginia[]

• Chantilly:
  • The Old Dominion Cotillion^[34]
• Ettrick:
  • Wives of Beaux-Twenty Debutante Cotillion^[35]
• Richmond:
  • Bal du Bois^[36]
  • The Richmond German Christmas Dance^[37]

Washington[]

• Tacoma:
  • Tacoma Holiday Cotillion

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