West Side YMCA records. 1896-1980s.

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West Side YMCA records. 1896-1980s.

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/ygny0014.xml

Collected reports, scrap books, press clippings, printed brochures and cards, minutes and correspondence from the West Side branch of the YMCA of Greater New York.

8 cubic feet (25 boxes)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Kautz Family YMCA Archives. [ymca]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6619482

Related Entities

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West Side YMCA Trade and Technical School (New York, N.Y.).

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McBurney School (New York, N.Y.).

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West Side YMCA Auto School (New York, N.Y.).

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YMCA of Greater New York. West Side Branch.

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The West Side branch of the YMCA of Greater New York began in November 1896 on 57th Street. In 1930, the branch moved to a new location between 3-11 West 63rd Street and 6-12 West 64th Street, near Central Park West, with a capacity for 10,000 members. Soon after, an addition was constructed to house the Trade and Technical School of the Educational Department, later to be a college preparatory school known as the McBurney School. Designed by Dwight James Baum, the structure was the world's larg...