a room especially fitted up for it on the first floor.
Eventually these quarters in turn became too small, for, at the time of
the semi-centennial celebration of 1887, when the need for a new home
for the Association was discussed, the membership of 300 was far too
large for this room. A movement for a new building arose, therefore,
which led to a successful appeal to the alumni; though it was not until
June, 1891, that the Students' Christian Association Building which
stands on State Street almost directly across from University Hall was
formally dedicated. The total cost was about $40,000 and of this amount
Mrs. Helen H. Newberry of Detroit gave about $18,000; the building being
known as Newberry Hall in honor of her husband, John S. Newberry, of the
class of '47.

From this time the work of the Students' Christian Association, now
carried on under far more favorable circumstances, expanded rapidly. A
further extension of the religious life of the University came in 1895,
when a University Y.M.C.A. was established by some members of the
Students' Christian Association who had become dissatisfied with the
older organization and desired, moreover, to become associated with the
strong international Y.M.C.A. body. This new organization found a home
eventually in McMillan Hall on the corner of State and Huron streets,
where it grew in influence with the student body until the time seemed
to many propitious for a reorganization of religious work among the
students. This was effected in 1904 through the incorporation of the old
Students' Christian Association into the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. with
separate headquarters in McMillan and Newberry Halls respectively,
although the old title, Students' Christian Association, was nominally
retained.

McMillan Hall was eventually taken over by the Tappan Presbyterian
Association, the owners of the building, and the resulting need for new
quarters for the men led, in 1915, to the successful solicitation of
funds for a new Y.M.C.A. building. Two years later, on March 2, 1917,
the new building, known as Lane Hall in honor of Judge V.H. Lane of the
Law School, who has been President of the Association for many years,
was formally opened. It stands on the corner of State and Washington
streets, and represents an outlay of approximately $125,000, of which
amount $60,000 was contributed by the Rockefeller Foundation under the
provision that a like amount be raised within a certain period.