The building thus referred to is located on the southwest corner of
Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, and is one of the handsomest and
most attractive edifices in the city. The locality is admirably chosen.
It is in full sight of the Fifth avenue and the neighboring hotels, and
but one block east of Madison Square. On the opposite side of
Twenty-third street is the beautiful Academy of Design; diagonally
opposite is the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and immediately
across Fourth avenue is the splendid structure of St. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal Church. It is but three minutes' walk from the stages and cars
on Broadway, and two of the most important lines of street cars pass its
doors. No better location could have been chosen.

[Picture: YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HALL.]

The building is five stories in height, and is constructed of dark New
Jersey sandstone, from the Belleville quarries. It covers about
one-third of an acre of ground, and has a frontage of one hundred and
seventy-five feet on Twenty-third street, and eighty-three feet on the
Fourth avenue. The architecture is of the French Renaissance style. The
trimmings are of light Ohio stone, but the brown stone gives to the
building its general aspect. The ground floor is occupied by handsome
stores, and the fourth and fifth floors are devoted chiefly to artists'
studios. These bring in an annual rental of about $12,000 or $13,000.

The second and third floors are used exclusively by the Association. At
the head of the grand stairway which leads from the main entrance in
Twenty-third street, is a large hall. On the left of this stairway is
the main hall or lecture-room, one of the handsomest and most convenient
public halls in the city. At the upper end is a fine platform with every
convenience for lectures or concerts. The floor is provided with iron
arm chairs, arranged after the manner of those in the parquet of Booth's
Theatre. A large gallery extends around three sides of the hall, and is
similarly provided with seats. The hall is two stories in height, is
beautifully decorated, and will seat with comfort fifteen hundred people.
On one side of the platform is a retiring room, and on the other is a
large and handsomely decorated organ. This is one of the finest
instruments in the city, and is a novelty in some respects, being
furnished with a drum, a triangle, and a pair of cymbals. Organ
concerts, lectures, a