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Its obvious that in the mid 1900s the university veered off its architectural style when it built Heather Hall and some others. I guess you can say that the university never really had a consistent architectural style to begin with.
The bulk of the current buildings were built between 1965 (Rose Hall) and 1978 (Towers/Library). They are pretty consistent.
The student union addition in ’94 and Arts & Science (Wiley) introduced the dumb green aluminum roofing. That style roof comes in three main colors – red, blue, and green. You would think that they would go for the red – it being a school color and all, but I digress.
At least this new ‘modern’ design will fit in well with the rest of the buildings around it. Edinboro’s big problem is that they will soon have a number of buildings being used for things other than they were designed for: Centennial (dorm), Hamilton (library), Ross (cafeteria), Miller (lab school), Crawford (gym), Compton (lab school), Reeder (dorm), Diebold (gym), and Academy (classrooms). That doesn’t count the maintenance buildings that were offices and the boiler house.
Actually, the big brick building across from Hamilton is the former boiler house. They now use it for storage for the maintenance department. From the early 1900s until the 1970s, the entire campus was powered by steam. The steam boiler was in this building. In the 70s, there was an earthquake that made the steam stack collapse. They had to switch over to outside electricity after that.
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Its obvious that in the mid 1900s the university veered off its architectural style when it built Heather Hall and some others. I guess you can say that the university never really had a consistent architectural style to begin with.
The bulk of the current buildings were built between 1965 (Rose Hall) and 1978 (Towers/Library). They are pretty consistent.
The student union addition in ’94 and Arts & Science (Wiley) introduced the dumb green aluminum roofing. That style roof comes in three main colors – red, blue, and green. You would think that they would go for the red – it being a school color and all, but I digress.
At least this new ‘modern’ design will fit in well with the rest of the buildings around it. Edinboro’s big problem is that they will soon have a number of buildings being used for things other than they were designed for: Centennial (dorm), Hamilton (library), Ross (cafeteria), Miller (lab school), Crawford (gym), Compton (lab school), Reeder (dorm), Diebold (gym), and Academy (classrooms). That doesn’t count the maintenance buildings that were offices and the boiler house.
What was the boiler house originally, if you know?
Actually, the big brick building across from Hamilton is the former boiler house. They now use it for storage for the maintenance department. From the early 1900s until the 1970s, the entire campus was powered by steam. The steam boiler was in this building. In the 70s, there was an earthquake that made the steam stack collapse. They had to switch over to outside electricity after that.