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A YMCA in Brest, France in 1902 A historical marker for the Christian Street YMCA at 1724 Christian Street in Philadelphia, noting its 1914 establishment Hotel Arthur in Helsinki, founded by YMCA in 1907 [15] A Canadian YMCA poster in 1914 A self-defence class at the YMCA in Boise, Idaho in 1936 A fireplace at the YMCA in Jerusalem in December ...
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave.
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The 28th Street YMCA is a historic YMCA building in South Los Angeles, California. It was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2006 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The four-story structure was built in 1926 at a cost of $200,000.
Sir George Williams (11 October 1821 – 6 November 1905) was an English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). [1] The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support young people to belong, contribute and thrive in their communities.
The international YMCA was founded in Great Britain in 1844, and its first American branch opened in 1851. Anthony Bowen founded the first African-American branch of the organization in 1853 in Washington, one year after a branch for whites was opened in the city. The organization struggled financially in its early years, and was not formally ...
The collection moved to the YMCA Training School (later known as Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, when it was founded in 1890, and then to New York City, when the YMCA built its first headquarters building there in 1908. In 1980, the YMCA moved its headquarters to Chicago and the collection went into storage for several years.