Boston Young Men's Christian Union

Boston Young Men's Christian Union is an historic building at 48 Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts and a liberal Protestant youth association. When Unitarians were excluded from the Boston YMCA (which was evangelical) they founded the Boston YMCU in 1852. The building was designed by Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee, constructed in a Gothic style in 1876, and added to the National Historic Register in 1980. Boston YMCU owned Camp Union, a 600-acre (240 ha) camp, in Greenfield, New Hampshire (1929–1993) (now Barbara C. Harris Camp & Convention Center of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts). Since its renovation in 2003 the Boston YMCU is the Boylston Street Athletic Club. The BYMCU goal in 1852 was to furnish the young men of Boston...