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Young Men's Christian Association (front elevation) Edinburgh, New Building

Draughtsman: Browne, George Washington, Sir, PPRSA RSA · 1853-1939

The YMCA Building was designed by Browne c.1914-15 and was built on the west side of South St Andrew Street, where it still stands in 2018 though no longer as the YMCA. The Architecture of Scotland Guide for Edinburgh describes it thus; "Then the YMCA by George Washington Browne, 1914-15, somewhat in the Academic manner of his former partner John M Dick Peddie, with giant recessed Ionic columns over a channelled base."

Object data

Date	c.1915
Accession	1993.096
Type	Drawing
Materials	Support paper Medium Pencil Medium Wash
Dimensions	Sight 71.9cm x 57.1cm
Acquisition	Gift Browne, George Washington, Sir, PPRSA RSA (1939-01)

Exhibitions

Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the Eighty - Ninth Annual Exhibition, 1915

Dates: May 8, 1915 - Sep 4, 1915

Venue: Royal Scottish Academy

Location: Edinburgh

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