Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

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 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.

View of East Hall Fraternity Residence. The residence is divided into five sections, each housing one of the national fraternities on campus.Each unit has rooms for twenty-four residents, a lounge, and chapter room. The ground floor is a large social area, shared by the Greek organizations. The exterior is Georgian Colonial design. Entrances to fraternity units are from archways located in the front and back of the building.

View of East Hall Fraternity Residence. The residence is divided into five sections, each housing one of the national fraternities on campus. The ground floor is a large social area, shared by the Greek organizations. Each unit has rooms for twenty-four residents, a lounge, and chapter room. The exterior is Georgian Colonial design. Entrances to fraternity units are from archways located in the front and back of the building.

During World War II, when cadets from the Army Air Corps occupied Dickinson dormitories, the Dickinson Seminary students lived in off-campus dormitories on Franklin and Fourth Streets. This is one of the temporary dormitories.

View of the Heim Biology and Chemistry Building looking west toward the glass-enclosed greenhouse. The Heim Building is a multi-level structure of over 63,000 sq. ft. in area. It contains eight biology laboratories, six chemistry laboratories, three classrooms, departmental seminar rooms, two large lecture halls, thirteen faculty offices, biology and chemistry reading rooms and several student research labs. It also has numerous specialized areas for marine life, instrumentation, a darkroom, a greenhouse, shops, a lab preparation area, and specialized storage. Information for this description is from the program of the dedication, October 13, 1990.

The back of the Heim Biology and Chemistry Building.

View of the Heim Biology and Chemistry Building looking west toward the glass-enclosed greenhouse. The Heim Building is a multi-level structure of over 63,000 sq. ft. in area. It contains eight biology laboratories, six chemistry laboratories, three classrooms, departmental seminar rooms, two large lecture halls, thirteen faculty offices, biology and chemistry reading rooms and several student research labs. It also has numerous specialized areas for marine life, instrumentation, a darkroom, a greenhouse, shops, a lab preparation area, and specialized storage. Information for this description is from the program of the dedication, October 13, 1990.

View from above of Long Administration Building, possibly photographed from a window in Rich Hall, or the Fine Arts Center.

Front view of Long Hall looking northeast from The Quad, as photographed at the 1987 Commencement Ceremony. Long Library was built in 1950-51, and named in honor of John W. Long, the President of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and its successor, Lycoming College, from 1921-1955. The clock face was installed in the tower in 1959. The building was home to the library until 1968, when the Academic Center was constructed. It now is the residence of administrative offices.

View of Long Administration Building looking east from The Quad. The clock in the clock tower was a gift from the Class of 1958.

Long Library was named in honor of John W. Long, President of Lycoming College from 1921-1955. The clock was installed in the tower in 1959. The library was moved to the Academic Center in 1968, and Long Hall now houses administrative offices.