50 Oak Street
San Francisco
former ' Young Men's Institute', a Catholic alternative to the YMCA by sftrajan
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50 Oak Street
San Francisco
The Courthouse, the Salvation Army, and the Young Men's Institute in a nice straight line in Portadown, Co. Armagh! Lots of red bricks and a variety of style but probably all changed by now? The ER on the front of the Courthouse should help with the dating?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865-1914 1902
NLI Ref: L_ROY_07138
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Asheville, North Carolina
50 Oak Street
built 1914
architect: William Shea
2015-JUL-F 027
50 Oak Street
built 1914
architect: William Shea
2015-JUL-F 026
The Young Men's Institute (YMI or currently known as the YMI Cultural Center) opened in 1893 but this photo in the Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, UNC-Asheville Ramsey Library is listed as undated, while curators at the Biltmore Estate (George Vanderbilt provided the funds while one of the Biltmore Estate's architects Richard Sharp Smith designed the building) date the image at circa 1905. It definitely appears turn of the century and is presumed to be a photo commemorating the institution opening.
Those who have been identified left to right: 1) Mrs. Maggie Jones; 4) E. W. Pearson; 5) Dr. L. O. Miller; 6) behind 5, Stanley Mc Dowell; 11) Jim Miller (Dr. Miller's father)
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Isaac Dickson as the original treasurer and a co-founder of the YMI would have been in this photo, but was never identified as to who he was in the group. By comparing to the Roosevelt images we can clearly see that that the man that appears to be Isaac Dickson in those photographs matches perfectly in height, dress, posture and skin tone to the man with a mustache in the center wearing a light colored suit.
architectural decoration
"Young Men's institute" - built 1914 by the archdiocese by architect William Shea
Oak Street
San Francisco
2014-July-G 009
architectural decoration
"Young Men's institute" - built 1914 by the archdiocese by architect William Shea
Oak Street
San Francisco
2014-July-G 010
architectural decoration
"Young Men's institute" - built 1914 by the archdiocese by architect William Shea
Oak Street
San Francisco
2014-July-G 011
"Original Architect: William D. Shea (1914) for the Young Men's Institute, a Catholic fraternal and benevolent organization founded in San Francisco in 1883. The Conservatory of Music acquired the property in 2000. Although the Beaux-Arts facade was retained and restored nicely, the interior was essentially gutted and rehabilitated with little respect for the buildings historic integrity and replaced with a sterile contemporary design. Only some of the decorative elements of the original ballroom were retained in an awkward and insensitive integration into the concert hall that replaced it. It is as if the interior architects were blissfully unaware of the Beaux-Arts Masterpieces in the vicinity." from a fellow SF flickerer.... www.flickr.com/photos/9405610@N02/6907486711/
City directory from the 1950's also show the "Donohue Library" was part of the establishment... Peter Donohue and family were 19th Century San Francisco Industrialists and philanthropists.
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"Original Architect: William D. Shea (1914) for the Young Men's Institute, a Catholic fraternal and benevolent organization founded in San Francisco in 1883. The Conservatory of Music acquired the property in 2000. Although the Beaux-Arts facade was retained and restored nicely, the interior was essentially gutted and rehabilitated with little respect for the buildings historic integrity and replaced with a sterile contemporary design. Only some of the decorative elements of the original ballroom were retained in an awkward and insensitive integration into the concert hall that replaced it. It is as if the interior architects were blissfully unaware of the Beaux-Arts Masterpieces in the vicinity." from a fellow SF flickerer.... www.flickr.com/photos/9405610@N02/6907486711/
City directory from the 1950's also show the "Donohue Library" was part of the establishment... Peter Donohue and family were 19th Century San Francisco Industrialists and philanthropists.
N Panasonic-Lumix 013
PICNIK EDIT-> advanced -> levels
"Original Architect: William D. Shea (1914) for the Young Men's Institute, a Catholic fraternal and benevolent organization founded in San Francisco in 1883. The Conservatory of Music acquired the property in 2000. Although the Beaux-Arts facade was retained and restored nicely, the interior was essentially gutted and rehabilitated with little respect for the buildings historic integrity and replaced with a sterile contemporary design. Only some of the decorative elements of the original ballroom were retained in an awkward and insensitive integration into the concert hall that replaced it. It is as if the interior architects were blissfully unaware of the Beaux-Arts Masterpieces in the vicinity." from a fellow SF flickerer.... www.flickr.com/photos/9405610@N02/6907486711/
City directory from the 1950's also show the "Donohue Library" was part of the establishment... Peter Donohue and family were 19th Century San Francisco Industrialists and philanthropists.
N Panasonic-Lumix 012
"Original Architect: William D. Shea (1914) for the Young Men's Institute, a Catholic fraternal and benevolent organization founded in San Francisco in 1883. The Conservatory of Music acquired the property in 2000. Although the Beaux-Arts facade was retained and restored nicely, the interior was essentially gutted and rehabilitated with little respect for the buildings historic integrity and replaced with a sterile contemporary design. Only some of the decorative elements of the original ballroom were retained in an awkward and insensitive integration into the concert hall that replaced it. It is as if the interior architects were blissfully unaware of the Beaux-Arts Masterpieces in the vicinity." from a fellow SF flickerer.... www.flickr.com/photos/9405610@N02/6907486711/
City directory from the 1950's also show the "Donohue Library" was part of the establishment... Peter Donohue and family were 19th Century San Francisco Industrialists and philanthropists.
N Panasonic-Lumix 007
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
@ 50 Oak Street.
Near Civic Center, between Van Ness and Franklin Street, main frame built in 1914 by Catholic Young Men's Institute. Ballroom and facade were retained prior to 2006 move of the Conservatory to this building.
see discussion of 'facadism' in historic preservation:
www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=166
