Lycoming College - Lycoming College Campus - Past and Present

View of the newly-finished Academic Center on the Lycoming College campus, looking northeast. The library wing is at the right of the photo. Snowden Library, in the east end, had study carrels throughout the building, groupings of study and lounge furniture, carpeted study areas with acoustical ceilings and fluorescent lighting. The instructional area contained twenty classrooms, five seminar rooms (capacity 100) and three lecture halls (capacity 1,000). Another large lecture hall seated 700 students. The AC originally included four physics labs, two psycholoty labs, one geology lab, two language labs, two mathmatics labs, and a planetarium. The theater, in the West Wing, had a seating capacity of 200 students. Snowden Library, in the east end, had study carrels throughout the building, groupings of study and lounge furniture, carpeted study areas with acoustical ceilings and fluorescent lighting.

The newly-finished Academic Center on the Lycoming College campus, viewed looking west in the late afternoon. The library wing is at the right of the photo. Snowden Library, in the east end, had study carrels throughout the building, groupings of study and lounge furniture, carpeted study areas with acoustical ceilings and fluorescent lighting. The instructional area contained twenty classrooms, five seminar rooms (capacity 100) and three lecture halls (capacity 1,000). Another large lecture hall seated 700 students. The AC originally included four physics labs, two psycholoty labs, one geology lab, two language labs, two mathmatics labs, and a planetarium. The theater, in the West Wing, had a seating capacity of 200 students. Snowden Library, in the east end, had study carrels throughout the building, groupings of study and lounge furniture, carpeted study areas with acoustical ceilings and fluorescent lighting.

Old and new come together in this picture showing the newly built Academic Center with Old Main just behind it to the right. The Academic Center was completed in the spring of 1968 and Old Main was torn down in November and December of 1968.

Empty classroom in the newly-constructed Academic Center. On back of photo: 'With divider in place, the classroom provides ample space for up to 45 students seated at spacious tables.' The instructional area of the Academic Center has twenty classrooms, and five seminar rooms, and three lecture halls. Ne large lecture hall seats 700 students.

Congressman Robert F. Rich takes his turn at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Academic Center, as Assistant to the President, R. Andrew Lady, observes. Rich Hall, a women's dormitory named in honor of the Rich family, is in the background. The Academic Center was part of the Lycoming College Project. Four buildings were planned for the land acquired from the Williamsport Redevelopment Authority. The description that follows is based on a Williamsport Sun-Gazette article dated March 14, 1965. The four buildings in the project would be connected and face Ross Street, with entrances on all sides. The facility would have a theater, laboratories, faculty offices, and library. Wagner and Hartman Associates, the architects, designed all units to be constructed of glass and architectural concrete, which was different from the colonial style buildings on the rest of the campus. Parking lots were planned for the area of Little League Boulevard and Mulberry Street.

Scale model of Academic Center by the architectural firm of Wagner-Hartman Associates. An article written by architect John Hoffman, discussing the plans for the Academic Center appears in the Spring 1968 Lycoming Alumni Bulletin.

Scale model of new Academic Center by the architectural firm of Wagner-Hartman Associates. The library wing is at the left of the photo.

View, looking northwest, of the construction of the Academic Center on the Lycoming College campus.

This bell hung in the west tower of Old Main before the building was torn down. It was restored by John Hill and John Harrison, Maintainence Dept.employees. Robert Norton, a student, is shown with the bell in Pennington Lounge. The Bell sits in Bell Lounge, part of Pennington Lounge, beside the stairway leading to the faculty offices.

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.

Construction of the Academic Center from 1966

View through the windows from the first floor of Pennington Lounge. On back of photo: 'Part of Pennington Lounge, Academic Center, Lycoming College.'