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United Brethren Gymnasium

3-3-2020
United Brethren Gymnasium

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Notes

We’ve seen the United Brethren Church at the NE corner of 6th and Oak before, but I don’t think I’ve shown the impressive gymnasium which was added in 1901. The building cost $1200 to construct, and was furnished with $200 worth of the athletic equipment, including a horizontal bar, swinging and trick rings, mats, punching bags, indoor baseball, Indian clubs and dumb bells. It also had hot and cold showers and a public reading room.

Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: 1900s, 6th Street, church, gymnasium, Oak Street

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  1. nels

    3rd March 2020 @ 10:39 AM

    Burned down? Torn down? Quite possibly the largest building in town at that time?

  2. ArthurB

    3rd March 2020 @ 10:53 AM

    That will take more research. It was shown on the 1916 Sanborn map, but replaced with apartments by the 1928 map. Unfortunately we don't have any mapping in between.

  3. ArthurB

    3rd March 2020 @ 10:57 AM

    Did a quick Glacier search– in the September 14, 1922 issue they mention the church building hasn't been used for services for 7 years and was offered for sale to the American Legion.

  4. nels

    3rd March 2020 @ 04:01 PM

    Looks like another HHR unsolved mystery! Something will pop up.

  5. Jeffrey W Bryant

    3rd March 2020 @ 04:38 PM

    They still had oak trees in what is now the middle of Oak Street.

  6. L.E.

    3rd March 2020 @ 07:23 PM

    Beautiful building. Milton Wright, the father of Orville and Wilbur Wright, was a United Brethren minister. He spent some time in Oregon. He was also somehow related to the Lyle family that founded the town of Lyle.

  7. ArthurB

    3rd March 2020 @ 08:16 PM

    L.E., while researching this I ran across an account of a lecture at this UB church about Wilbur and Orville's time in Philomath OR. The claim was the airplane had its roots in Oregon.

  8. Mary Bartmess Kramer

    3rd March 2020 @ 08:52 PM

    My great grandfather Sam Bartmess brother was a UB minister and he knew the Wrights. I was told he started the congregation here.

  9. Arlen Sheldrake

    3rd March 2020 @ 09:12 PM

    I'm trying to visualize how they built that steple……..

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