The Abandoned Pennsylvania YMCA Railroad Hotel Canton Ohio

Urban explores find an abandoned building built in the late 1800’s. Canton Ohio location, believe this building to have been a railroad hotel for the YMCA also known as the Pennsylvania YMCA building. This building was built for mostly traveling men. During our research we found a post card that shows this building to be on the first YMCA’s established in the United State which was built the late 1800’s. The first YMCA to be established in the United States was located in the city of Boston in 1851. Roughly six years later, the YMCA organization which was founded in London by George Williams started building may more near rails. Back in the days, the Americans recognized challenges and hazards created by the migration of men from the countryside to the city with the rise of the industrial revolution. This movement quickly spread. After the Civil War, roughly 59 YMCA thought USA existed. This particular YMCA building was also known as the 270-Pennsylvane Railroaded Canton YMCA and was one of the 59. Back in the days, the YMCA focus was on saving souls, with saloon and street corner preaching, lists of Christian boarding houses, lectures, libraries and meeting halls, most of them had rented quarters. His building had three floors of small one bedroom rooms. Later, the YMCA made some improvements and added or incorporated spiritual, mental, social and physical conditioning of young men.” Today, the YMCA is mostly health fitness organization.
It is alleged the building was taken over by the CIA for a top secrets classified project called MK-Ultra a mind altering control project. Testing and converting human minds continue during the cold war and up to the Nixon years. The building may have been abandoned by the CIA sometime around 1969. For the last 50 years the site was fenced in and used as a junk yard. It was not until recent years that the car junkyard removed the cars and released the property. The property now stands vacant and open to the elelmemtnt. Please watch his second video on the site that explains the MK Ultra and the special building areas that exists. Please go to Cleveland Marko on YouTube for this video. Video will be public in January 2015. Please rate, subscribe and support.