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.

Students enter the library wing of the new Academic Center.

View of the back of the newly-constructed John G. Snowden Memorial Library.

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

View, looking northwest, of construction of the Academic Center in progress. According to an article published in the Fall 1966 'Lycoming Alumni Bulletin', it was necessary to go forty-two feet below grade at the west side of the building by Mulberry Street before pouring the footings. 'More than 36 cubic yards of earth were removed. Structural steel first appeared in the middle of November.'

Two women sit and stand by a tree next to Bradley Hall. Another stands somewhat behind them holding up a bicycle. All three are wearing hats and long, dark dresses or coats. Bradley Hall was built in 1895 and named for Thomas Bradley of Philadelphia, president of the Board of Trustees and a great benefactor of the college. Initially an art and music conservatory, Bradley later housed the library, faculty offices, and classrooms, and a walkway connected it to Old Main. It was razed in 1980.

View of Bradley Hall's library and reading room in 1916.

Students, seated at tables, study in the stacks area of John W. Long Library.

Students, seated at tables, study in John W. Long Library.

A patron is assisted at the circulation desk in the new Long Library. One of the items in the glass enclosed insert in the circulation desk is the trowel used to lay the cornerstone of John W. Long Library.

Photo of the construction of John W. Long Library (now Long Hall, an administration building). The John W. Long Library was built in 1950-51, and named in honor of John W. Long, president of Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, which later became 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.