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YMCA/Fitzgerald Condos (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

USA / Michigan / Grand Rapids / Grand Rapids, Michigan / Library Street NW, 57
 YMCA, apartment building

In 1883 the association moved to the Godfrey block on Ionia street, one door south of Monroe street, where the headquarters remained until 1886, when they were removed to the northwest corner of Pearl and Ottawa streets, where Mr. Julius Berkey had erected a temporary building for the uss of the association. The state convention was entertained by Grand Rapids in 1887.In 1888 the Internationa] Conference of Y. M. C. A. Secretaries was held in Grand Rapids, with nearly three' hundred delegates attending from all parts of the United States and many foreign countries. The first site of the Y. M. C. A. building, at the corner of Ionia and Pearl streets, was purchased in September, 1888, and in October of the same yeyar, the headquarters were again removed from the corner of Pearl and Ottawa to an old dwelling on the site purchased, and there the headquarters have since remained. In 1899 the international convention of Y. M. C. A. delegates was held in Grand Rapids. It was an event in the religious and municipal life of the city. The Y. M. C. A. building is a monument of enterprise to the city. It cost $100,000 with its equipments, and is an investment which pays good interest in the forces which work for righteousness in the city, its growth and development.

October 11, 2007 a fire gutted the building.
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Coordinates:   42°57'52"N   85°40'0"W
This article was last modified 16 years ago