Young Men’s Christian Association of the City of Minneapolis was organized in the summer of 1866. Since that time it has gradually grown until it now owns, free from debt, a splendid property at the corner of 10th and Young Men’s Christian Association…
The central building is of brown stone and pressed brick, five stories in height. There are entrances on both fronts. The first floor of the buildings is given up to reading room, social and game rooms and the association office. The physical department, including a well equipped gymnasium, swimming pool and shower baths, boxing, fencing and wrestling and locker rooms, occupies about one fourth of the building.
On the second floor is the auditorium, seating 600, used for religious meetings, concerts, lectures and entertainments. The remainder of the second floor is occupied by the dining room and educational class rooms. There are four other large educational class rooms on the top floor, making a total accommodation for about 700 students in the evening school. The remainder of the building is used for dormitory rooms, accommodating 50 resident members.
-Hudson’s Dictionary of Minneapolis and Vicinity, 1918