Wilmington YMCA, also known as Wilmington Central YMCA or just Central YMCA, is a historic

YMCA YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London, originally ...

building located in Wilmington,

New Castle County, Delaware New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of th ...

. It was built in 1929, and is a six-story, red brick and Indiana limestone building in a

Spanish Colonial Revival The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the ...

style. It consists of a center six-story, nine-bay main block flanked by five-story, one-bay wings, setback slightly from the main facade. and It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2002.

References

External links

Central YMCA website
YMCA buildings in the United States Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Colonial Revival architecture in Delaware Buildings and structures completed in 1929 Buildings and structures in Wilmington, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub