Judd Gymnasia Room, c. 1898

An image of a group of students sitting around a table eating what appears to be breakfast in a room in Judd Gymnasia. Today the room is the Alumni Relations conference room. The handwritten caption beneath the image reads, "Bdg. Club Gym Bldg 1898".Judd Gymnasia was the first building erected on the new land purchased for the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, along Massasoit Lake in Springfield, Massachusetts. Construction was completed on the building in September of 1894 and it was formally opened on October 26, 1894. In 1910, trustees authorized the addition of a second gymnasium and swimming pool. The new gymnasium, completed in February of 1912, was designed by architect Edward Lippincott Tilton and known as West Gymnasium. The entire building was renovated in 2010, with occupancy beginning in September of 2010. A formal Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to open Judd Gymnasia was held on October 13, 2010. Another ceremony was held on May 19, 2011 as a Dedication of the Stitzer YMCA Center that makes up a part of the facilities in the building, including the use of the East Gymnasium as a conference center for the YMCA and the Office of YMCA Relations and the YMCA Hall of Fame in the Springfield College History Museum.A handwritten description on the back reads, "Club in Gym Building 1898"; Series were added to this collection, changing the file name. File names of the uploaded files contain the old name