Warren YWCA Collection

Dublin Core

Title

Subject

YWCA

Description

The Warren YWCA was founded and incorporated in 1916. It was originally located in the Dana’s Musical Institute’s Junius Cottage (1916-1919) before finding its next home in Dana’s Martha Potter Hall (1919-1929). In 1926 a capital campaign began in earnest for the construction a building to house the Y. Under the direction of Building Campaign Chair B.W. Edwards, local businesses were solicited for $1000.00 each to purchase the property then occupied by the Harrington family’s abandoned home on North Park Avenue. In addition, board members, staff and supporters canvased Warren neighborhoods requesting smaller donations. Construction of the YWCA began in 1928 and was completed in 1929.

Identifier

050-024

Collection Items

Lists containing records of donations made during the YWCA building fund drive from various zones in Warren. Lists include the names of donor companies, and the amounts donated by the company and by its employees.

List of members of Division II Home Women’s Teams

“Methods of Solicitation” memo for the YWCA Building Campaign, including publicity outline.

Employed Women’s Division outline for the YWCA Building Campaign, including names, addresses and phone numbers of team members of teams 21-24.

Girl Reserves helping with the community fund drive in Martha Potter Hall, 1927.

Program booklet from Service of Dedication, November 3, 1929.

Invitation to Dedicatory Ceremonies, including Program of Events pocket (15 x 8.5 cm.).

Program from Laying of Corner Stone, November 18, 1928.

Program of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Warren YWCA, September 20, 1928.

Mrs. A.L. “Ella” Phelps breaking ground on September 20, 1928 for the new YWCA buiding.

Also pictured are Miss Hazel Agler, Mrs. Eugene Craig, Miss Anna May Derge, Mrs. A.N. Flora and Mrs. Ella McKee.

Mrs. A.L. “Ella” Phelps receiving shovel for groundbreaking from Mr. B.W. Edwards, Building Campaign Chairman, September 20, 1928. Also pictured is Mr. R.J. Keich, Architect.

Groundbreaking ceremony with Mrs. A.L. “Ella” Phelps, Mr. B.W. Edwards, September 20, 1928.

The building site for the Warren YWCA, 375 North Park Avenue, circa 1928

The Warren YWCA building under construction, circa 1929.

The Warren YWCA upon completion, October 20, 1928.

Handbook detailing policies and procedures of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Warren when it was located in Martha Potter Hall in 1925.

History and minutes of the first organizational meeting of the YWCA of Warren.

Drafted in 1961, references events of 1916. Possibly an adaptation of the earliest board minutes from 1916, which are missing from the board book.

Photograph of downtown Vautrot and Myers Company window display supporting the YWCA building fundraising campaign.

29 East Market Street.

Photograph of downtown window display supporting the YWCA fundraising campaign at the Muter and Grossart bookstore, located at the square at 15 North Park Avenue and 116 Main.

Handwritten list of local individuals who donated money to the YWCA to help pay off debts incurred with building construction, January 2, 1930, Lydia S. Brainard, Chair.

Program from the YWCA’s 10th anniversary Service of Re-Dedication program, November 5, 1939.

A program from the 1955 YWCA Home and Garden Tour of Warren, Ohio.

“Parade of Presidents”, a YWCA history, focusing on early supporters, including names and some occupations, was written for the annual dinner meeting, January 26, 1955, as part of the YWCA World Centennial.

Letter from William B. Klee, Jr., President of Warren YMCA welcoming Hilda Humes, YWCA Warren Executive Director, September 24, 1951.

1950 brochure about Warren YWCA’s modernization program, outlining plans and costs.

Facts sheet about the YWCA modernization program, circa 1950.

Letterhead for the Modernization Fund, April 25-May 6, 1950, including committee chairpeople.

Plan for YWCA Modernization Fund, March 30, 1950.

Text of a 1983 speech by Mrs. Thorn Pendleton for a Friday luncheon.

The speech provides descriptions of notable Warren homes, including the King House that burned in the 1970s.

Photograph of front of YWCA building on North Park Avenue circa 1940’s.

Girls on the steps of Martha Potter hall, 1926.

Participants from the English Class for the Foreign Born on the steps of Martha Potter Hall, 1926.

The hall was the home of the YWCA from 1918-1929.

YWCA members and staff outside Martha Potter Hall in September, 1927. From left to right: Mrs. Dayton, Mrs. Wilbur, Mrs. Dray and Miss Mendenhall.

The Martha Potter Hall was the home of the YWCA from 1918-1929.

Girl Reserves before a track meet on the steps of Martha Potter Hall, 1927.

Building campaign participants in drive in downtown Warren, May, 1926.

Participants in English Classes for the Foreign Born outside Martha Potter Hall in the Spring of 1927. .

Girl Reserve selling forget-me-nots downtown for Near East Relief, June 26, 1926

Girls outside Martha Potter Hall, circa early 1920’s. The hall was the home of the YWCA from 1918-1929.

Martha Potter Hall was the home of the YWCA from 1918-1929.

English class conducted in Martha Potter Hall in the Fall of 1927.

Unidentified girls on the steps of Martha Potter Hall circa 1925.

Program from the ceremony of the laying of the cornerstone, November 18, 1928.

The front of the YWCA, looking West from Scott Street and showing renovation on the right.

The front of the YWCA building with the original front entrance still in use.

The YWCA logo on the façade of the new addition (Wean Pool), circa 1973.

Photograph of the community room under construction. The Community Room was built over the courtyard.

Looking West from Scott Street at the front of the YWCA, showing the courtyard, the old neon sign and entrance on North Park.

Photo from the Spring Breakfast dedication of the Community Room in honor of Hazel B. Oehler.

Brochure produced for the public regarding the capital campaign to build the Community Room, Wean Pool, and expanded classroom spaces.

1920 article from Warren Tribune Chronicle announcing the opening of a “colored” YWCA on the corner of Clinton and South Park Avenue.

This YWCA was listed in the 1921 Warren city directory as being located at 307 ½ South Park Avenue, but does not appear in 1923. The colored YWCA was known as the House of Friendliness.