FREE: Vintage Postcard - Landmark Wabash Ave. Y.M.C.A. - Chicago

The listing, Vintage Postcard - Landmark Wabash Ave. Y.M.C.A. - Chicago has ended.

Front of card has a bit of scuffing from rubbing against other cards (visible in photo posted here), and minor wear on the corners.

TEXT on back reads: CHICAGO Y.M.C.A. HOTEL. 826 South Wabash Ave., For Men, Women, Families. 2,000 Fireproof Rooms in Downtown Chicago. 2 Cafeterias Serving 3,000 Meals Daily; Convenient to all Transportation; Guest Program Activities Include: Social, Educational and Religious Events. Inexpensive Living With Friendly People.

A plaque I found online reads: Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A.; built 1911-13; addition 1945. An important center of community life, the Chcago YMCA also provided housing and job training for new arrivals from the South during the "Great Migration" of African-Americans in the first decades of the 20th century. It closed as a YMCA in the late 1970s.
One of the 9 structures in the Black Metropolitan-Bronzeville Historic District. Designated on Sept. 9, 1998 by Richard M. Daley Mayor.
Plaque erected for the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.