Home Gym

Today, having a gymnasium is typical for virtually all American colleges and eminent schools, as well almost all intermediate and many Home Gym elementary schools. These facilities are utilized for physical education, intramural sports and for interscholastic athletics

Gymnasia in the United States however predate the Turner movement. A conjoint gymnasium movement sprung up in the 1820s and 1830s but was eclipsed by the evolvement of school, college, and the Girlish Men's Christian Association (YMCA) gymnasia. The first college gymnasium probably was the one built at Harvard University in 1820. Like most of the gymnasia of the period, it was equipped with gymnastic apparatus. The United States Armed Academy at West Point built a gym during the same era. A few other American colleges built gyms by the 1850s. Harvard opened a new brick gymnasium in 1860 with two bowling alleys and dressing rooms in aggrandizement to the gymnastic facility.