{"id":34,"date":"2016-03-02T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:29:50","slug":"old-main","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/sample-page\/historic-buildings-and-monuments\/old-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/files\/1907-Northside.jpg\" alt=\"1907-Northside\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Resting on a knoll facing Hal Greer Blvd. and Fourth Ave. in downtown Huntington, &#8220;Old Main&#8221; is actually a series of five additions joined together between the years 1868 and 1908.<\/p>\n<p>It is the oldest building at Marshall University and\u00a0the landmark\u2019s distinctive towers are among the university\u2019s most-recognized symbols.<\/p>\n<p>The building currently houses student services and administrative offices.<\/p>\n<p>Old Main was listed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvculture.org\/shpo\/nr\/pdf\/cabell\/73001899.pdf\">National Register of Historic Places<\/a> in 1973.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/files\/Terrace2.jpg\" alt=\"Terrace2\" width=\"373\" height=\"250\" \/>Learn More<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/special-collections\/old-main-1837-1907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Main History \u2013 Marshall University Libraries, Special Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/campus\/virtualtour.php?id=30\">Old Main Virtual Tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resting on a knoll facing Hal Greer Blvd. and Fourth Ave. in downtown Huntington, &#8220;Old Main&#8221; is actually a series of five additions joined together between the years 1868 and 1908. It is the oldest building at Marshall University and\u00a0the landmark\u2019s distinctive towers are among the university\u2019s most-recognized symbols. The building currently houses student services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":138,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-right.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/history-and-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}