Young Men's Christian Association (Indianapolis, Ind.). Senate Avenue Branch

The cornerstone of the Senate Avenue YMCA in Indianapolis was laid in October 1912 at Michigan and Senate Avenues. Booker T. Washington dedicated the building in 1913. Until the early 1960s the Senate Avenue YMCA held the largest membership of any African-American branch in the United States. The facility provided cultural and recreational activities as well as vocational guidance for young men. The center closed in 1959 following the opening of the Fall Creek YMCA. The Hi-Y was a boy's club founded in the mid-1940s by the national YMCA movement. Hi-Y groups operated out of high schools as part of the YMCA's core youth program and were popular until the 1960s.

From the description of Hi-Y Spring Conference photographs [graphic], [ca. 1947-ca. 1948]. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 51509511