NEB&W Guide to Cohoes, NY - YWCA

Last Update: 2009-07-05

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• Somewhere I got it stuck in my head this was the YMCA, not the YWCA.

• The YWCA was in a mansard-roofed building on the corner of Mohawk and Pine, still so listed in the '49 and '53 City Directories. At some point, the Cohoes YWCA merged in with the Troy YWCA.
  We are modeling the rear and north side of the building.
  • [Sanborn map c. 1925.]
  On the map, I measure the nearest corner (the southeast corner) to be 42 or 43 feet straight back from Canvass. The back is 30 feet across. The jog in the north wall is 15 feet back and offset by five feet.

• A section gang poses on the Pine Street crossing just north of the depot. (We told you steam-era railroading was labor intensive!) Note the fourth church in the background, and just beyond that, the steeple of the fifth. The mansard roofed building was the YWCA.
  • [C. 1947 photo, from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  • [Similar angle but up close, c. 2004.]
  • [Three-quarter view of the back and side, 2007.]
  • [Mohawk Street side of the YWCA, 2007.]

• We took a field trip here, January '09.
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  • [Photo looking west on Pine. Good broadside shot of the back.]
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