Young Men’s Institute (YMI) Building, Eagle Street and Market Street, Asheville, NC : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Young Men’s Institute (YMI) Building, Eagle Street and Market Street, Asheville, NC / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1892-1893, this Tudor Revival-style building was designed by Richard Sharp Smith for the Young Men’s Institute, a community center for people of color in Asheville. The Young Men’s Institute was founded by community leaders Isaac Dickson and Dr. Edward S. Stephens in a collaborative effort with George Washington Vanderbilt, and his estate manager, Charles McNamee, to serve black men whom helped build Biltmore Estate, as they faced discrimination in the racially segregated city of Asheville. The building housed meeting spaces for various organizations serving the local black community, as well as a library, reading room, and gymnasium, which hosted various community events and lectures by visiting black intellectuals, performers, educators, and activists. The building also contained several retail spaces on the ground floor, which were rented out to local businesses serving the black community, and the proceeds from the rent of these spaces was utilized to make the Young Men’s Institute financially self-sufficient, which allowed it to purchase the building from the Vanderbilt Estate in 1906, and remain in operation until it was heavily impacted by desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s. The building’s exterior is similar to those found in Biltmore Village, and features a red brick base, a pebbledash stucco exterior, a hipped roof, bracketed eaves, eight-over-one, twelve-over-one, and six-over-one double-hung windows, retail shopfronts on the Eagle Street and Market Street facades with large plate glass windows, shed awnings, and transoms, decorative red brick quoins at the corners of the building, red brick trim at the doorways and windows, and red brick cladding on the side and rear facades. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Additionally, the building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Asheville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and adjusted to its present size in 2011. The building was restored and reopened as the YMI Cultural Center in 1980, thanks to the collaborative efforts of several black church congregations in the city of Asheville, and today, houses various businesses in the retail spaces on the ground floor, and spaces for intercultural events and programs on the upper floors. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-07-03 13:37:08 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Asheville, North Carolina, United States 地図 |