YWCA Boston

History

20th century

YWCA Boston's historic landmark headquarters at 140 Clarendon Street was built in 1929, designed by George F. Shepard and Frederic Stearns.

21st century

In 2009, it consolidated its operations with the all-volunteer City-Wide Dialogues on Boston's Racial and Ethnic Diversity, and has expanded the breadth and scope of that program's community and youth/police interracial dialogues efforts, adding leadership development, and community action planning and implementation components to its curricula.

In 2012, YWCA Boston rebranded to YW Boston to better reflect the fact that it now a secular organization and serves people of all genders.

Image gallery

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  Congregational House, Chauncey St., Boston, occupied by the YWCA in its early years
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  Detail of programme for Boston Tea Party centennial at Tremont Temple, benefit for Boston YWCA, 1873
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  YWCA gymnasium, 1894
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  YWCA's school of domestic science, 1902

See also

• YWCA Boston building (Clarendon Street)

Further reading

• "Boston Young Women's Christian Association." 10th Annual report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts. 1874. Google books
• Boston Young Women's Christian Association. American kitchen magazine, Nov. 1902. Google books

External links

• http://www.ywboston.org/
• Google news archive. Articles about the Boston YWCA
• http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/college_archives/charities/char_coll_018.pdf
• http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00219