250th anniversary celebration: Y.M.C.A. building, Main Street, Middletown
Morgan, C. A. L.
Creator
still image
1900
image/tiff
reformatted digital
Source extent: 1 photographic print ; 17 x 22 cm.
View of Young Men's Christian Association building and adjoining commercial building decorated with American flags and bunting. The Y.M.C.A. is a large Queen Anne style building with round towers, arched and round windows, half-timbering and plate glass windows on the ground floor. Signs read: "Y.M.C.A. Woman's Auxiliary / Restaurant and Lunch Room / Hot Tea Coffee 5. Open from 11 o'clock" "Young Men's Christian Association" "Middletown's 250 Anniversary / Loan Exhibit" "Look! / Lunch / Rooms / Y.M.C.A. / Woman's / Auxiliary / Upstairs." Men and boys stand on the sidewalk looking in the windows. A man stands beside a board that appears to hold commemorative buttons and ribbons for sale. Two bicycles are at the curb. The brick commercial building at the left has signs read: "Central National Bank" "Dr. / Lambertson / Dentist / First Class" "Lyman Payne" "Pianos / & / Organs" "Singer / Sewing Machines" "Standard Patterns." A man with a beard, holding a cane, stands on the steps. The square Gothic church tower of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is at the far right.
Connecticut Historical Society
Environment
Infrastructure
Lifestyle
Title supplied by cataloger.
Anniversaries
Bicycles
Commercial buildings
Bank buildings
Middletown (Conn.)
Young Men's Christian Association (Middletown, Conn.)
Accession number 2000.209.27
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