A sketch of the first floor plans of the International YMCA Training School's Judd Gymnasium thought to have been made in 1910 around the time the new gymnasium, West gymnasium, was proposed. The plans are drawn in pencil and appear to show the office and classroom areas as well as the present gymnasium, East Gymnasium, and the proposed new gymnasium, West Gymnasium, with the tower extension between the two gymnasiums.
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International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Judd Gymnasia was the first building erected on the new land purchased for the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, along Massasoit Lake in Springfield, Massachusetts. Morrissey and Shea’s Corporation completed construction on the building in September of 1894 and it was formally opened on October 26, 1894. In 1910, trustees authorized the addition of a second gymnasium and swimming pool. The new gymnasium, completed in February of 1912, was designed by architect Edward Lippincott Tilton and known as West Gymnasium.
The sketch is mounted on cardboard with a handwritten caption on the back which reads "Proposed plans for gymnasium extension. About 1910"; Series were added to this collection, changing the file name. File names of the uploaded files contain the old name;
