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YMCA secretaries worked to create camp committees to run programs providing educational opportunities, physical instruction, and equipment, theatrical productions and musicals. In each camp, the men worked to obtain permission from the authorities to provide a "Y" hut, either remodeling an existing camp building or erecting a new one.
The Downtown YMCA was designed by Shattuck & Layer, Chicago architects who designed many YMCA buildings across the United States and abroad.The firm designed the Columbus building in the Jacobethan Revival style, with complex brickwork, cut-stone details, three-part rectangular windows, and roofline battlements.
By 1845, YMCA started a popular series of lectures that from 1848 were held at Exeter Hall, London, and started being published the following year, with the series running until 1865. [9] YMCA was associated with industrialisation and the movement of young people to cities to work. YMCA "combined preaching in the streets and the distribution of ...
Cherry Creek is known for several things. First, the Brandenberry shopping center on the western part of the neighborhood, which includes a grocery store, and several other places. It also has its own church, the Cherry Creek Church of Christ, and its own YMCA, the Hilltop YMCA.
Spring Street YMCA / Ward Home and Storage Facilities. – founded 1919. One of the first to specifically serve the black community. The E.E. Ward Moving Company is the oldest African American owned and operated business, still operating today, in the country. Lincoln Theatre – located on Long Street, opened in 1929 by Al Jackson.
"When I was young and running around the Natoma (restaurant), Skip was someone I looked up to," Athan said. "He was a pioneer in Licking County in the hospitality business. He would always offer ...
Sloane House YMCA, West 34th Street, New York City, which was the largest residential YMCA in the U.S.A. Old Poughkeepsie YMCA, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP as "Young Men's Christian Association". [2] United States Post Office (Canandaigua, New York), now used by the YMCA and listed on the NRHP in Ontario County, New York. [2]
Franklin University has a history of serving older adult students that spans more than a hundred years. It was founded in 1902 at the Columbus Downtown YMCA, under its sponsorship as the YMCA School of Commerce. [7] It changed its name to Franklin University in 1933, and amicably discontinued its formal affiliation with the YMCA in 1964.