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 ====== Alumni Hall ======
+[{{::10.2307_community.21989161-1.jpg?400 |Alumni Hall, c. 1890. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.21989161|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
-[{{ :alumnihall.png?direct&400|Alumni Hall, c. 1890. Photo credit: Trinity College Archives}}]
+Completed in 1887 and designed in the "Spanish-Chateau" style ((Glenn Weaver, History of Trinity College, p.235)) by William Brocklesby Class of 1869, Alumni Hall gymnasium was located in the north end of the [[summit_campus|Summit campus]], approximately where [[admissions_building|Borges Admissions Center]] stands in 2023. It was damaged by a fire on February 18, 1922 and was reconstructed. A subsequent fire destroyed the building in 1967.
-Completed in 1887 and designed by William Brocklesby, Alumni Hall gymnasium was located in the north end of the [[summit_campus|Summit campus]], approximately where the Admissions building stands in 2022. A fire destroyed it in 1967.
+In addition to supporting the [[athletics|athletic]] program, the building "had been the scene of proms, tea dances, faculty receptions for students, undergraduate course registration, final exams, and productions by the [[jesters|Jesters]]." ((Knapp and Knapp, p. 245))
-In addition to supporting the athletic program, the building "had been the scene of proms, tea dances, faculty receptions for students, undergraduate course registration, final exams, and productions by the [[jesters|Jesters]]."((Knapp and Knapp, p. 245.))
+Following its destruction in 1967, the Trinity College //Alumni Magazine// ran a feature-length history of Alumni Hall, providing insight into its use and place in student life throughout the twentieth century.
-Following its destruction in 1967, the Trinity College //Alumni Magazine// ran a feature-length history of Alumni Hall, providing insight into its use and place in student life throughout the twentieth century.
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 ===== Sources =====
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History]] (2000) by Peter Knapp and Anne Knapp.
+[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: a History]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/202/|Trinity College Alumni Magazine]], Summer 1967, pp. 2-5.
+[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/202|Trinity College Alumni Magazine]], Summer 1967, pp. 2-5.
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