3-085-895 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Young Men's Christian Association's new club buildings at Glasgow, 1898. 'The new edifice forms one of the handsomest piles of buildings in Glasgow. The block has a frontage of 300 ft. in Bothwell Street...It is built of freestone, and is as substantial as it is effective. The central part was erected in 1878, and has been the home of the Y.M.C.A. for the past twenty years, and the centre of a large and most successful work. The new eastern wing contains the Bible Training Institute, and affords accommodation for a hundred young men and fifty young women, who are being trained for home and foreign missionary work. This department is under the auspices of the United Evangelistic Association. The new wing on the west is occupied by the club, which aims at providing a home for young men engaged in business in the City. Here are no less than one hundred and ninety-four bed-rooms and large sitting, study, and smoking rooms. The bed-rooms vary in prices from five to twelve shillings a week...The club has been floated as a limited liability company, but the money for the other parts of the building has been raised by subscription. The total cost of the block has been about £90,000, exclusive of the ground, which is valued at £42,000.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.