6 BULLETIN 825, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Educational and recreational: Lectures, moving pictures, night 
schools, entertainments, billiards, pool, bowling, table games, 
reading room, and library. 
Social: Dancing, banquets, suppers, club meetings, socials, and 
parties. 
Athletic: Baseball, basket ball, and tennis. 
Political: Political meetings and elections. 
Hygienic: Nursery, welfare work, and rest rooms. 
Religious: Union church work. 
Gymnastic: Activities of the gymnasium. 
In addition to the organizations already mentioned as using the 
buildings, the following were also found : Parent-teacher association, 
commerce club, board of trade, women's club, county agricultural 
society, town board, Daughters of the American Revolution, Young 
Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Grange, Farmers' Educa- 
tional and Cooperative Union of America, Society of Equity, choral 
society, athletic association, various fraternal organizations, Farmers' 
League, art club, driving association, hospital corps, Young People's 
Christian Association, industrial club, dairy association, civic associa- 
tion, fire department, poultry association, men's club, relief society, 
ladies' aid society, Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, 
Sunday school, cooperative marketing association, and county 
medical society. 
SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY BUILDINGS. 
In the following pages are presented brief statements relative to 
the origin, purpose, and present use of typical community buildings. 
These buildings have been chosen with a view to showing examples of 
community buildings constructed or acquired under a variety of con- 
ditions and serving different types of communities. It is believed 
that the concrete story of how some one community actually secured 
and used a community building will often prove more suggestive to 
other communities interested in the question than any statement 
in the form of a composite summary or tabulation of the results of the 
investigation of many buildings. 
THE COMMUNITY HOUSE, HOLDEN, MASS. 
The community house of Holden, Mass., together with the organ- 
zation connected with it, is an example of the revival of civic pride, 
public spirit, and true neighborliness in a small but very old New 
England rural community. Among the immediate causes con- 
tributing to the enterprise were, first, a developing movement toward 
expansion along social lines, as indicated by the organization of 
several societies with various social objects but with no adequate 
