The concept never came to reality, but serious talk was given back in the pre-Smith Hall days to building a massive classroom-administration complex along 16th Street between Third and Fifth Avenues. Old Main and Northcott Hall would have been demolished. The concept shown here is a view from the northeast with Morrow Library at the left. Instead, construction ended up as the complex of Smith Hall, Smith Music Hall and the Communications Building and later Corbly Hall. Old Main remains as did Northcott Hall until its demolition for the John Deaver Drinko Library.