Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

Interior view of the sitting room of Admissions House

Aerial close-up view of Lycoming College's newly-completed Academic Center. To its left (right side of the photo) is the Hilltop Gymnasium, which faces south. Behind the gymnasium, facing west, is Rich Hall, a dormitory. Next to Rich Hall is the Wertz Student Center. Across the street from the student center is Crever Hall. Next to Crever Hall is another dormitory, Williams Hall.

Aerial view of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College Campus c.1945. This photo was taken after Rich Hall was built, but before the Long Library was built in 1951. Buldings visible here are Old Main in the center, Bradley Hall to its right, Memorial Hall north of Bradley Hall, Flock Brewery, which became the Science Building, across the street. Across from Old Main, to the north, are Hilltop Gymnasium, now the Fine Arts Building, and Clarke Building and Chapel. Behind Hilltop Gymnasium, facing west (columns are on the east and west sides) is Rich Hall, which was constructed in 1948. The white building across campus on the corner of Washington Boulevard is the Fine Arts Center. The football field is behind Rich Hall, Hilltop Gymnasium, and Clarke Building and Chapel. To the left in front of Old Main by the railroad tracks is Eveland Hall.

Aerial view of the campus ca.1948. The architect's design for three new buildings is sketched in the photo. Old Main, the building with two cupolas, faces south. Connected to it by the pedestrian bridge is Bradley Hall. Memorial Hall is north of Bradley Hall. The building beside Bradley Hall is Clarke Building and Chapel. The other building behind Old Main is Hilltop Gymnasium. Behind the gymnasium, the building with columns, is Rich Hall, a women's residence hall. North of Rich Hall, on the corner of the street is the President's House. The white building next to this is the Old Fine Arts Building. The rectangular grassy area with the bleachers on the east side is the Quad. The bleachers are in front of two proposed buildings that are sketched onto the photograph. The building with the columns is Wesley Hall, a men's residence hall. The building sketched next to it is Long Library. Another building is sketched across the open area Behind Memorial Hall and east of Bradley Hall. The nature of that building is being investigated.

Close-up aerial view of the Lycoming College campus facing east. The large building in the foreground is the Academic Center and the attached library. Next to the library is Hilltop Gymnasium, facing south, and next to that is Clarke Building and Chapel. Across from them on the other side of the trees is Old Main, the long building with two white cupolas. The roof of Bradley Hall can be seen to the left (east) of Old Main. Between Old Main and the Clarke Building, facing west, is Memorial Hall. Behind that is a dormitory, Skeath Hall. The dormitory by Skeath Hall is Asbury Hall. In front of Asbury Hall on the east side of the Quad is Long Hall, the building with the four columns and cupola. Long Hall housed the library and became an administrative building in 1968, when the library was moved to its location in the Academic Center. Continuing counter-clockwise around the Quad, the large grassy area in the middle of the photo, Wesley Hall, a men's dormitory, is next to Long Hall. The dormitory to its right (on the left in the photo) is East Hall. The white buildings across the Quad from East Hall are the Fine Arts Building and the President's house. Next to the President's house is the Wertz Student Center, and next to that building, behind the Hilltop Gymnasium, is Rich Hall. Across the street from Rich Hall is another dormitory, Crever Hall, and to its left, at the far left of the photo, is Williams Hall.

Aerial view of the Lycoming College Campus in 1967, looking northeast. This photo shows the construction of the Academic Center in progress. The Academic Center is in the large buiding in the foreground of the photo. It faces south. The building on the right (east) with the two white cupolas is Old Main. It was razed in 1968. In front of the Academic Center, to the right of the parking lot is Eveland Hall. Behind Old Main and beside the Academic Center is Hilltop Gymnasium. At the right is Clarke Building and Chapel. Behind Hilltop Gymnasium is Rich Hall and the Wertz Student Center. Across from Wertz Student Center is Forrest Hall, and to its left (north) is Williams Hall. The President's House and Old Fine Arts Center are at the northwest corner of the Quad, the large grassy area. The large building at the northeast corner of the campus is East Hall. The building on the east side of the Quad with the steps leading up to it, is Wesley Hall. Long Hall, with the clock tower, is beside it behind the Clarke Building and Chapel. Memorial Hall is beside the Clarke Building. The building behind Long Hall is Asbury Hall. Across from Memorial Hall and beside Asbury Hall is Skeath Hall. The building in the far southeast corner of campus, to the right of the trees, is the Old Science Building.

Aerial view of the Lycoming College Campus in 1968, looking northeast The roof of the Academic Center can be seen in the center of the photo. The building to the upper right (northeast) with the two white cupolas is Old Main. It was razed in 1968. Across from Old Main (north side) is Hilltop Gymnasium, and northeast of that is the Clarke Building and Chapel. Behind Hilltop Gymnasium, the building with the cupola in the center of the photo, is Rich Hall, a dormitory. The Wertz Student Center is to the viewer's left of Wertz Student Center. Across from Rich Hall is Forrest Hall, also a dormitory, and to its left (north) is North Hall (now Williams Hall), another dormitory. The President's House and Old Fine Arts Center are the white buildings in the center, left. The Quad is the large grassy area. The large building beside the Clarke Building, at the southeast corner of the Quad (top right area of this photo) is Skeath Hall, a dormitory. Behind Skeath Hall is another dormitory, Crever Hall. At the northeast corner of the campus is the East Hall dormitory. The building on the east side of the Quad with the four columns and cupola is the Long Hall, an administration building. The building behind Long Hall is Asbury Hall. Beside Long Hall, the building with the steps leading up to it from the Quad, is Wesley Hall, a dormitory. The building in the far northeast (top left) corner of campus is East Hall. The Old Science Building can barely be seen at the southeast corner of campus. On back is an article from the Williamsport Sun-Gazette: 'Lycoming College Campus Continues Steady Growth.' The caption reports about the announcement of a $6 million expansion program spanning the next 10 years. Most of the land was acquired through the Lycoming College Redevelopment Project. The Academic Center had recently been built, and work had just begun on a new girls' dormitory, Forrest Hall. Plans had been made for the razing of Old Main and construction of a new gymnasium on the site.

Aerial view of the Lycoming College Campus in 1968, looking northeast The Academic Center can is the large, light-colored building in the photo. It faces south toward the parking lot. The building to its left and a bit south, with the two white cupolas, is Old Main. It was razed in 1968. To the left of Old Main is a classroom building, Bradley Hall. Across from Old Main (north side) is Hilltop Gymnasium, to its left (east) is the Clarke Building and Chapel. Behind Hilltop Gymnasium, the building with the four columns and cupola near the center of the photo, is Rich Hall, a dormitory. The Wertz Student Center is to the left of Wertz Student Center. Across from Rich Hall is Forrest Hall, another dormitory, and to its left (north) is Williams Hall, also a dormitory. The President's House and Old Fine Arts Center are the white buildings across the street from Williams Hall. The Quad is the large grassy area. The large building beside the Clarke Building, at the southeast corner of the Quad