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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.
In 1915, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, one of the first groups specializing in African-American studies, was founded during a meeting at the Wabash 'Y'. [ 2 ] Louis Gregory , a traveling speaker for the Bahá'í Faith and often attending national conventions of the religion held in Chicago area, is known to have ...
The Victor F. Lawson House is a historic former YMCA building located at 30 W. Chicago Avenue in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The building was built in 1931 for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, which was established in 1858 and had grown considerably during the 1920s.
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.
The 1st Birkenhead (YMCA) has a claim to be the oldest Scout Troop as it was founded on 24 January 1908 when B P attended a meeting at the YMCA. Documents at the District Headquarters confirm this fact.
Central YMCA College was a college operated by the YMCA in Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was founded prior to or in 1922. [1] and was accredited in 1924. [2]It was closed in 1945 after the university president and a large majority of the faculty and students left to form what became Roosevelt University.
19 South LaSalle Street, formerly known as the Central YMCA Association Building, is a building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed in 1893 and designed by the architecture firm Jenney & Mundie.