Athletic Gymnasium and Elevated Boxing Ring (Circa 1925)

A massive timber-trussed indoor gymnasium featuring an elevated boxing ring beneath a suspended canvas awning and a wall scoreboard. — Athletic Gymnasium and Elevated Boxing Ring (Circa 1925) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Reflecting his personal discipline as an active boxer and athlete outside the aeronautical engineering office, Donald A. Hall Sr. photographed this spacious indoor training gymnasium. The facility features heavy wooden Howe roof trusses, multi-pane clerestory windows, an elevated boxing ring beneath a suspended canvas canopy, gymnastic rings, and a wall scoreboard marked Visitors. The negative captures the raw conditioning environment of either the Downtown Detroit YMCA or an Army base athletic drill hall where Hall trained.