310 E. Charles St., Muncie, Indiana. County/parish: Delaware.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 17, 1989. NRIS 88002117.
Part of Downtown Muncie MRA (NRIS 64000187).
1 contributing building.
The Young Women's Christian Association at 310 E. Charles St. is a historic YWCA building located at Muncie, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, five bay by three bay, restrained Colonial Revival style brick building with limestone detailing. It has swimming pool in the basement, meeting and recreation rooms on the first floor, and sleeping rooms on the second and third floors.
The Indiana gas boom caused a population boom in Muncie in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The city housed a large population of young female factory workers by the 1910s, when interest in forming a local branch of the YWCA emerged. The Ball brothers helped to fund the construction of the building.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132001791