Photograph of YWCA Building — Photograph by Benjamin Cody, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Young Women's Christian Association

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The YWCA Building is a historic Young Women's Christian Association building Bellingham, Washington that was completed in 1915. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and continues to be used by the Bellingham YWCA.”
Wikipedia article YWCA Building (Bellingham, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1026 N. Forest St., Bellingham, 98225
When was it listed? April 1977
Category. building
Census division. Bellingham
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Carl Frelinghuysen Gould
National Register reference number. 77001367 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

77 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Young Women's Christian Association between 1993 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	8
Debris and open burning	7
Fireworks	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STUART RD
16 September 1998	Smoking	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Young Women's Christian Association: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Magnesite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chuckanut Bay Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Grandview	Clay	Past Producer
Lookout Mountain Bentonite Deposit	Bentonite	Occurrence
Olivine Mill	Magnesite	Past Producer
Griffin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellingham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 1 waterspout, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2023	Heavy Rain	South Bellingham	-	A record rainfall of 1.58 inches was set at Bellingham Airport on October 24th, breaking the old record of 0.9 set in 2001.
October 1997	Waterspout	Bellingham	-	A brief waterspout was observed by a spotter, it came onshore and quickly dissipated.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Robert I. Morse House	under 500 feet	1977
J. J. Donovan House	0.1 miles	1983
Hotel Laube	0.2 miles	2003
Orchard Terrace Apartments	0.2 miles	2015
Morse Hardware Company Building	0.2 miles	2005
Sanitary Meat Market	0.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001367 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Whatcom County	All 74 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.