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  • Collection: Buildings & Campus

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Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible (l-r) are Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey Alumni Gymnasium (with new addition being constructed), Old Main, Old Young, Veteran's Village, Fry House, and…

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Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are (clockwise) the back of Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the lower left is the construction of the Main Street…

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Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are (clockwise) the back of Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the photograph's top is seen (l-r) Carnegie Library,…

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Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the lower right are (clockwise) Old Centre, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. In the upper half are (l-r) Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey…

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Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. The campus is in the middle left. The view is looking east to west. The road in the center is Main Street, to the right Lexington Avenue, and to the left…

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Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. The campus is in the lower left. The view is looking northwest to south east.

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Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Omar Adams, Spring of 1949. Visible in the center are Old Main, Wiseman Hall, McReynolds Hall, and Hillcrest. To the left is Walnut Street and in middle is Main Street, showing the…

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Aerial photograph of the Centre College campus taken by W. C. Alcock, October 28, 1939. Buildings that are visible include (l-r) the old Danville High School, Carnegie Library, Boyle-Humphrey Gymnasium, Old Main, Old Young, Fry House (upper right),…

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Survey by Archibald Bilbo of seven acres of John Cochran's pasture land for the campus of the new college. The Board of Trustees paid $400 for the land. A few months later a strip 20 feet wide and the length of the first, was added to the north side.…

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The Cotton House was built as the Phi Kappa Tau house, the first of a proposed "Quadrangle Plan", which called for Centre's fraternities to build houses on land behind Craik House and along Maple Aveneu. The Phi Kappa Tau house was the only such…

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Undated view of the east side of the newly constructed Ferris football stadium, circa 1923.

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Undated photograph of a classroom in Old Young Science Hall, circa 1920s.

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Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Billy Davis, January 1964. View is from northeast to southwest.

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Aerial view of Danville and the Centre College campus taken by Billy Davis, January 1964. View is from southwest to northeast.

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Photograph of Old Centre on the Centre College campus from Howard A. Dorsey's photograph album dated 1908-09, labeled "College home."

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Reproduction of a photo-engraving of Old Main on the Centre College campus with the classes of 1878 and 1879 standing in front of the building.

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Engraving of Old Centre on the Centre College campus. The engraving is found in the September 1859 issue of the Centre College Magazine.

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Winter scene of the back of Old Centre on the Centre College campus, circa 1940.

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View of Old Main on the Centre College campus, circa 1930. To the left is Boyle-Humphrey Alumni Gymnasium.

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Exterior view of Old Young Science Hall on the Centre College campus, circa 1930. Built in 1909, Old Young was destroyed by fire in 1970.

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Exterior view of Hillcrest House on the Centre College campus, circa 1930. Originally built as the college refectory, Hillcrest served as the home of Centre's presidents from 1831 until 1937. It was later used as a faculty and student residence and a…

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Exterior view of Old Main on the Centre College campus, circa 1930. Built in 1871, Old Main was demolished in 1964.

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Exterior view of the second Sayre Library on the Centre College campus. Constructed in 1893 to replace the first Sayre Library, this building served as Centre's library until the construction of Carnegie Library. Sayre Library was demolished…

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Interior view of the second Sayre Library on the Centre College campus. Constructed in 1893 to replace the first Sayre Library, this building served as Centre's library until the construction of Carnegie Library. Sayre Library was demolished…

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Photograph of the first Sayre Library from 1879. Built in 1862 with a donation from David A. Sayre, the octagonal building was demolished in 1893. Photo is an enlargement from a collage of campus buildings that appeared in the May 29, 1879, issue of…
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