Young Men's Christian Association

YMCAs on military posts were built by private contributions. They offered both rest and healthy recreation, refreshments, game rooms, and a reading room. Dances for enlisted soldiers could be held here, and these dances were segregated. For a small fee, visiting families of military soldiers stationed at Fort Hancock could stay in rooms on the top floor. The one-story wing seen on the right side of the photograph was an earlier wooden gymnasium built during World War I that was torn down in 1941, when the new gym was built.