Wilmington Delaware's Central YMCA

Post-Rehabilitation Central YMCA

Front entrance to Central YMCA

View of the rehabilitated daycare, originally the Boys' Department

View of the pool, after rehabilitation

For the recent rehabilitation of Wilmington, Delaware's Central YMCA, Powers & Company, Inc. provided historic preservation consulting  for placing the building on the National Register of Historic Places and receiving Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits.  The Wilmington YMCA is a six-story Spanish Colonial Revival style building that occupies the block bounded by W. 11th Street, N. Washington Street, W. 12th Street, and N. Jefferson Street in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. Erected in 1929 and designed by the Wilmington firm of Brown and Whiteside Architects, the building evokes a restrained and conservative interpretation of the Spanish Colonial Revival style with symmetrical fenestration and the judicious use of ornamentation.

The building remains in continued use as a YMCA.  The various areas of the building that were rehabilitated included: the vestibule, the dining room, the dormitory rooms and corridors, the pool, the small and large gymnasiums, the auditorium and the original Boys' Department, now a child care area  that was retained its original paneled wood pirate ship interior. 

More information about Wilmington's Central YMCA can be found at the following link: http://www.ymcade.org/branches/central/history.cfm.