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Latitude: 56.468 / 56°28'4"N
Longitude: -2.8772 / 2°52'37"W
OS Eastings: 346051
OS Northings: 730995
OS Grid: NO460309
Mapcode National: GBR VN.3FN3
Mapcode Global: WH7RC.SP3F
Plus Code: 9C8VF49F+54
Entry Name: YMCA Gymnasium, 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Listing Name: Broughty Ferry, 151 Brook Street, Ymca Gymnasium
Listing Date: 29 October 1991
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362175
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25767
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200362175
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: The Ferry
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Architectural structure
South Elevation: advanced gabled entrance porch at centre, rainwater pipe at right with decorative brackets.
East Elevation: gauged brick decorative panel at centre inscribed 'the gift of Alexander Jefferson Buist, Esq, president 1893'.
Interior: largely original; timber hardwood floor, painted boarded dado, lined waggon roof with simple traceried collar braces.
This building is an architecturally distinctive, purpose-built gymnasium for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The building was designed by George MacLaren of James McLaren and Sons. The Dean of Guild drawings are dated March 1893 and the inaugural event was held in the building on 26 December 1893 (Dundee Courier, 27 December 1893). It was funded by Alexander Jefferson Buist, who was president of the Broughty Ferry YMCA association.
The YMCA was founded in London in 1844 and started in Scotland in 1848 (although similar organisations had existed before then). The organisation grew rapidly and by 1876 there were 62 Scottish associations. The Broughty Ferry YMCA was established in 1866. The Broughty Ferry YMCA was established in 1866.
See separate listing for the YMCA building at same address (LB25766).
Listed building record updated in 2018.
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