Old Poughkeepsie YMCA

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Old Poughkeepsie YMCA
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Location Poughkeepsie, NY
Coordinates 41°42′08″N73°55′48″W / 41.70222°N 73.93000°W / 41.70222; -73.93000
Built1908 [1]
ArchitectJackson & Rosencrans
Architectural style Renaissance Revival
MPS Poughkeepsie MRA
NRHP reference No. 82001171
Added to NRHPNovember 26, 1982

The Old Poughkeepsie YMCA is on the west side of Market Street near the corner of Church Street (US 44/NY 55) in Poughkeepsie in New York, United States, across from the former New York State Armory. One of many historic early 20th-century institutional buildings on Market Street, the city's main downtown thoroughfare, it has a glazed terra-cotta front facade, the only building in Poughkeepsie using that material. [1]

Building

The organization, founded before the YMCA as the Young Men's Christian Union, had previously met at an office on Union Street, next to the city's former post office. It was built in 1908 in the Renaissance Revival style, one of the few in the city, with part of a $265,000 gift from William Wallace Smith, one of Smith Brothers cough drop makers and a YMCA member and benefactor. His gift also included a neighboring office building, [2] since demolished. The New York City firm of Jackson & Rosencrans were the architects. [1]

In keeping with the style and era, the building features many ornamental touches, such as a molded cornice, quoins, denticulated frieze second-story balcony and domed first-floor windows. The center of the top balustrade has an elaborate cartouche.

The interior likewise boasts sliding double doors, dark-stained woodwork and brick fireplaces [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The YMCA has since moved to different quarters a few blocks away and become the Dutchess County YMCA. The building, now attached to newer structures on either side, houses some county government offices and a few private businesses.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sharp, Townley (August 12, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Young Men's Christian Association (Poughkeepsie, New York)" . Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  2. "$265,000 GIFT TO Y.M.C.A.; New Building Presented to Poughkeepsie Organization by W.W. Smith" (PDF). The New York Times. November 9, 1909. Retrieved 2008-01-08.