Research done by the Springfield College Archives on the School for Christian Workers building

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Title:
Research done by the Springfield College Archives on the School for Christian Workers building
Description:
This 21 page document is a collection of research done by the Springfield College Archives on the School for Christian Workers building or the Original School Building of Springfield College as it is known at Springfield College. The work was done between 2008 and 2010. The first page is an image of a spreadsheet listing information on the building by date and where the information came from. The rest of the paper are an email written by the College Archivist, Jeffrey Monseau, to Springfield College president, Dr. Richard B. Flynn and dated November 4, 2010 and the supportive information listed in the email. The materials attached mostly come from early Trustee reports and meeting minutes. Construction on the building was completed in the spring of 1886 and it was dedicated on June 1 of that year. The building consisted of a reading room, gymnasium, parlor, a recitation room, an amusement room and fifty sleeping rooms. The Armory Hill YMCA also rented rooms in the building. In 1891 James Naismith, while a faculty member at the school, invented the game of basketball in the gymnasium of the building. In 1890 the School for Christian Workers separated into two schools which continued to operate out of the same building, the YMCA Training School and the School for Christian Workers. In 1896 the Training School finished the transition to its new location on Alden Street and in 1897 the School for Christian Workers became the Bible Normal College and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. The original building was torn down in 1965 to create a parking lot. In 1995, McDonald’s Corporation bought the land, excavating the original foundation and bricks before building a restaurant on the site. Today, there is a monument commemorating the site as the birthplace of basketball. Basic OCR has been done on email and some of the documents, but full transcription was not done. Most of the pages are transcribed in other areas of the collection.;
Creator:
Springfield College
Creator:
Monseau, Jeffrey
Date:
[2008?–2010?]
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Subjects:
Springfield College
School for Christian Workers (Springfield, Mass.)
Springfield College--Buildings
Original School Building
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Springfield College--Faculty
Monseau, Jeffrey L.
Flynn, Richard B.
YMCA
Hope Church
Armory Hill YMCA
Springfield (Mass.)
Correspondence
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
21 pages
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/34324
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Identifier:
rg111-01-01-003