Until the advent of modernism after World War II, the image employed for YWCAs was generally quite different from that for YMCAs. Designers of YWCA buildings tended to look to domestic images that at the time were thought to be more “feminine” than the more institutional look usually reserved for the YMCAs. Burlington's YWCA, with its Palladian-like round-arched windows, rows of
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