Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

Architect's scale model of the Lycoming College Campus in 1968, most likely before the construction of the Academic Center. The top of this photograph is the south. At the top right of the layout is the Academic Center, which faces the parking lot on the south. To the left, across the street, is Hilltop Gymnasium. Across from the gym is Old Main. Left of Old Main is Bradley Hall. To its southeast is the Old Science Building. To the left of the gym is the Clarke Building and Chapel. Between Bradley Hall and the Chapel is Memorial Hall. Behind Memorial Hall is a dormitory, Skeath Hall. Another dormitory, Asbury Hall, is across from Skeath at the left of the photo. In front of Crever Hall is Long Hall, the buiding with the white clock tower. Long Hall faces the Quad, the large, open area. Next to it is Wesley Hall, a dormitory. On the corner next to Wertz is East Hall dormitory. West of East Hall on the corner are the Fine Arts Building and the President's house. Across from the President's House is a dormitory, Williams Hall. Next to Williams Hall is another dormitory, Crever Hall. Across the street from Williams Hall and Crever Hall is Wertz Student Center. Next to Wertz, the building with the white cupola, is Rich Hall, another dormitory.

View of the front of Asbury Hall from the iron fencing between Wesley Hall and John W. Long Library. Asbury, an H-shaped building on Franklin Street, was built in 1962 to house 154 male students, plus a resident advisor, or in the absence of a resident advisor, for chapel speakers and other guests of the college. In 1968, it was made a male, freshmen residence hall, with a dean available on the first floor. Due to an overflow of women students in 1971, a section of the building was used for housing women, although the building was not co-ed. Asbury Hall was named in honor of Bishop Francis Asbury, the father of The United Methodist Church in America. He was a bishop in the Susquehanna Valley in 1912, when the Williamsport Academy, the institution from which Lycoming College got its roots, was formed.

View of the back of Asbury Hall on the Lycoming College campus. Asbury, an H-shaped building on Franklin Street, was built in 1962 to house 154 male students, plus a resident advisor, or in the absence of a resident advisor, for chapel speakers and other guests of the college. In 1968, it was made a male, freshmen residence hall, with a dean available on the first floor. Due to an overflow of women students in 1971, a section of the building was used for housing women, although the building was not co-ed. Asbury Hall was named in honor of Bishop Francis Asbury, the father of The United Methodist Church in America. He was a bishop in the Susquehanna Valley in 1912, when the Williamsport Academy, the institution from which Lycoming College got its roots, was formed.

A referee is seen leaving the athletic field, and other players can be seen in the background. The crowd is visible at the left of the photo. The back of Hilltop Gymnasium, the Clarke Building and Chapel, and Old Main can also be seen.

Children assist in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Academic Center at Lycoming College, as R. Andrew Lady, Assistant to the President, looks on. Rich Hall, a residence hall, is in the background.

Autumnal view, from above, of Clarke Building and Chapel. The building behind the chapel with the cupola is Long Hall, which houses administrative offices. Dormitories are in the background.

A male student sits at the top of the concrete stairway leading to Crever Hall. The residence hall for women was completed in 1962. The dormitory was named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Crever, who was responsible for the development of the Williamsport Academy, the predecessor of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. Dr. Crever's wife and daughter were members of the first Seminary faculty. The Seminary later became Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College, and became a four-year institution, Lycoming College, in 1948.

One student reads while lying on a bed, and another sits in front of a mirror in one of the new dormitory rooms in Crever Hall. The residence hall, located on the west side of College Place, was built to accommodate sixty female students. It was completed in 1962.