Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice-President Cliff Davenport, Returning Chamber of Commerce Vice-President Walter Wilson, Congressman Carl Elliott, Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on Government Research, NASA Administrator James E. Webb,…
In the spring of 1947 a meeting of some 200 representatives from civic clubs, churches, organizations, and interested citizens was held in the First Methodist Church to consider the proposal of the Religious Council Youth Committee. This group of…
The YMCA was reorganized in 1903 and a campaign was begun to raise money for a building under the leadership of B. A. Small, General Director, and officers W.G. Somerville and T.M. Leatherwood. A lot at 2014 Broad Street (now University Boulevard)…
The YMCA was reorganized in 1903 and a campaign was begun to raise money for a building under the leadership of B. A. Small, General Director, and officers W.G. Somerville and T.M. Leatherwood. A lot at 2014 Broad Street (now University Boulevard)…
The men in this photograph documenting laying the cornerstone of the new central YMCA building are from left to right: Hugo Friedman, J. Oviatt Bowers, Ernest Williams, Harlan Meredith, Buford Boone, George LeMaistre.
The YMCA Central Building was constructed in 1958 by the Daniel Construction Company. The architects were Wilmot C. Douglas and Carl M. Mosely, Jr., Architects Associated.
The building fronted on 10th Avenue (now Paul Bryant Drive) on property…
The new building was formally opened and dedicated on Sunday, April 5, 1959.
There were two entrances on 10th Street (now Bryant Drive), one to the adult lobby and one to the teenage lobby. The building included a swimming pool, gymnasium, shower…
The Board of Trustees, Staff, New Building Committee, New Building Furnishings Committee, Past Presidents and General Secretaries of the YMCA as listed in the dedication brochure on April 5, 1959.