{"id":2472,"date":"2020-01-06T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/special-collections\/?page_id=2472"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:53:05","slug":"year-1898","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/special-collections\/old-main-1837-1907\/year-1898\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Main &#8211; 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\r\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-7\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"float:left;margin-right:20px\">\r\n\r\n                                            \n        \n    <div\n        id=\"years\"\n        x-data=\"accordion('years', false)\"\n        class=\"rounded-lg overflow-hidden mb-2 transition-all duration-300 ease-out bg-gray-50\"\n        x-bind:class=\"expanded ? 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This building was designed to be a dormitory for women. The contract was awarded to the Withrow Lumber Company of Charleston, WV, on July 31, 1897. Work commenced soon after with the demolition of the 1839\/1856 building and its bell tower. The new building was completed in late December 1897 and was accepted by the Board of Regents on January 29, 1898.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>APPEARANCE OF THE 1898 BUILDING: The newly renovated building was called Normal Hall when it opened in 1898; the next year it was renamed Ladies Hall. Finally, in 1902, it became known as College Hall.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>After the construction of the 1898 building, Marshall College&#8217;s buildings remained separated: the new 1898 building attached to the 1870 building stood east of the 1896 building.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The new College Hall was a three story brick structure with a stone foundation. The structure was 94 feet long by 40 feet wide with an additional 19-foot projection on the northeast exposure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p> Beginning on the north side, the building&#8217;s eastern end was a 24-foot bowed section, followed by 70 feet of straight frontage which attached to the 1870 building. There were two entrances on the north side. The first was just west of the bowed section, through a small archway. The main entrance was at the building\u2019s western end, where eight steps led to a spacious covered veranda, 14 by 52 feet in size, and a large arched opening leading to a vestibule and double doors that opened into the interior. The upper floors contained windows, with attractive dormers over those on the third floor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The southern side was 94 feet long with a small veranda (22&#215;8 feet) on the southeast corner. Further to the west was the rear entrance with wooden steps. The eastern side contained only windows, and the western end was attached to the 1870 building.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>INTERIOR OF THE 1898 BUILDING: In 1898 the Normal (later Ladies and College) Hall was designed to be a women\u2019s dormitory, as well as housing for the college\u2019s principal and the female faculty. A description of the newly opened dormitory appeared in the 1897-98 Catalog:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>BASEMENT FLOOR &#8211; Cellar, laundry, one water closet, and furnace room.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>FIRST FLOOR &#8211; Double parlors, dining hall, kitchen, buttery, pantry, two matron\u2019s rooms, servants room, and two water closets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p> SECOND FLOOR &#8211; Principal\u2019s apartments (including parlor, library, office, bath-room, bed-room, kitchen, pantry, and dining hall), two teacher\u2019s suites, guest-room, twelve girls\u2019 rooms, reading hall, and bath-room.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>THIRD FLOOR &#8211; One teacher\u2019s suite, nineteen girls\u2019 rooms, one music room, one music hall, and a bath-room.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>THE 1898 BUILDING\u2019S LATER HISTORY: Over the years the exterior of College Hall remained basically unaltered, except for the enclosing of the building&#8217;s two verandas. 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