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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.
Baltimore, Maryland, Oldest Central Building of the YMCA constructed 1872–73, a triangular structure of five stories in "Second Empire" style architecture with brick and stone trim, slate mansard roof with large corner central tower and several smaller towers (later removed in early 1900s remodeling), at the northwest corner of West Saratoga and North Charles Street, on the northwest edge of ...
Caldwell is a village and the county seat of Noble County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the West Fork of Duck Creek about 23 miles (37 km) north of Marietta . The population was 1,691 at the 2020 census .
Macleod, David I. Building character in the American boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history. Putney, Clifford W. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990." Journal of Sport History 20#2 1993, pp. 151–166. online
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.
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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.
In the early 1900s, the Shattuck and Hussey won a design competition for the YMCA and went on to design dozens of the nearly 200 YMCA buildings built between 1906 and World War I. [7] [6] The YMCA treated the firm's designers as quasi-employees and relied on the firm to produce functional, cost-effective facilities.