New York YMCA, 4th Avenue Façade

The first New York YMCA Building, at 52 East 23rd Street and 4th Avenue (now Park Avenue South), was dedicated on December 2, 1869 and demolished in 1903. This five-story building was designed in Renaissance style by renowned architect James Renwick Jr. (1818-1895), the same architect who designed the Grace Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral.

This photo is a fragment a bigger photograph with main subject the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church. It was taken between 1882 and 1901, when the National Academy building (part seen on the right) was demolished. Source: Robert L. Bracklow photograph collection, New-York Historical Society.

Offices on Fourth Avenue.

- J. G. Lugar's Son & Co. 302, a firm specialized in painting and wall-paper decorations (the chapel on the left was completed in 1869).

- The Phoenix Candle Co. Works Syracuse N.Y. 304 4th Ave.