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It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. [2] YMCAs in America is one of the largest charitable nonprofits in the United States, in terms of donations received from the general public, as listed by Forbes magazine. [3]
In 1980, the YMCA moved its headquarters to Chicago and the collection went into storage for several years. In 1985, the YMCA of the USA agreed to send the material to the University of Minnesota. In 1999, Richard C. Kautz (1916–2003), a businessman and YMCA lay leader from Muscatine, Iowa , and his family donated funds for a major ...
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.
A temporary First World War YMCA on the Western Front, near Rouen, France, 1914 YMCA Bath, one of 86 locations in England and Wales. YMCA in the United Kingdom and Ireland consists of three separate National Councils: England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. When YMCAs in Wales joined YMCA England in 2017, the council was renamed YMCA England ...
In 1910, Dan Beard founded Boy Scouts Troop 1 in Flushing, New York, which is believed to be one of the oldest continuously chartered Boy Scout Troop in the United States. [ 62 ] Troop 5 of Denver holds claim to be the oldest continually chartered Boy Scout troop in the United States, west of the Mississippi River, having been chartered ...
Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. This YMCA facility served as an important social center within the Black Metropolis area, and it also provided housing and job training for African Americans migrating ...
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.
Old Central YMCA was across Charles Street from the first church in the city and metropolitan area, Old St. Paul's Anglican (Episcopal) Church, founded 1692 in southeastern Baltimore County and later relocated to the southeast corner of Charles and Saratoga when Baltimore Town was first laid out in 1729–30. The Old 19th Century YMCA was later ...