Then & Now: Old Greendale YMCA, Stores Street, Worcester
Posted Nov 18, 2019
The Greendale Family Branch YMCA was established in 1929, but without its own building. The branch conducted programs at Norton Co.’s fieldhouse and at area churches.
Plans to erect a new building for the Greendale YMCA began in the 1940s, and by 1950 the building pictured in our Then story opened on Stores Street on land donated by Norton Co., the abrasives manufacturer now known as Saint-Gobain. Norton Co. also provided a maintenance fund of $25,000 a year for five years.
The branch expanded over the next several years and was home to many for exercise. In 1970, discussions began about constructing Route 52, now called Interstate 190, and tearing down the Greendale YMCA to make way for it. The old building was located at least in part where I-190 stands, just before Exit 1, abutting Indian Lake. (continued)
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