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Should this page be called "List of buildings at Marshall University" as it fits the criteria for a structured list article not a main article?Madmedea 16:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] College of Medicine building, anyone?

I've added quite a bit from Marshall University, but details on the old School of Medicine building on Sixth or Seventh Avenue seem very hard to get. Could someone please pick up the loose ends - I am not sure if the building still exists (it was built about 1916 as a railroad hospital; MU took it over in the 1970s and has since moved on, it seems). Cheers! 147.70.242.40 21:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Are you referring to the former Chesapeake and Ohio hospital that was demolished circa 1995? I have a few scant details on it as well, unfortunately. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 21:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
If that's the one that was near Nineteenth Street, that's the one.147.70.242.40 21:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
I actually think I have a short blurb on it in a book I own, but its at my friend's house, not here... You should really sign up for an account! Your contributions are quite wonderful, and woefully needed! Thanks for your hard work! Seicer (talk) (contribs) 00:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Hooray for Dogpile - I've uncovered a 2001-vintage Parthenon article from 2001 with history of the Doctors Memorial Building from 1890 (when it was bought from Huntington's first mayor by the King's Daughters - it was Peter Cline Buffington's residence!). Updating now. B.Wind 21:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Grrr, cookies were rejected. Newest additions were by yours truly, working on the same computer as my anonymous friend. Found another Parthenon article that takes it back to about 1870.B.Wind 00:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One dead end almost resolved...

I was able to ferret out more information about the Chesapeake and Ohio hospital (oh, the name changes since 1977 alone!) and incorporated much of it in the grid (demolition was in the fall of 2001 - and resulted in action by the Ohio EPA for illegal dumping!). In the process, I have found the location of material that would tamp down the construction date and much of the history of the facility prior to MU taking it over: Special Collections at MU's library (I enjoyed the hours I spent on the Morrow Library third floor when I was at Marshall...). Details are given in the note should anybody wish to spend an hour or two fleshing it out (this might even turn out to be a potentially more substantive article in the works than for Old Main). 147.70.242.40 18:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ... but on the other hand...

Other details seem even more elusive. I can find very little on the Jenkins Hall Laboratory Annex, except that it was on the current site of the One Room School Museum (the site was a paved parking lot for at least the 25 years before the Museum was moved there), and that it was still standing when Holderby Hall was opened (as seen to the left of Holderby Hall in this 1960s era picture - the Shawkey Student Union is too far south of the sidewalk to be seen at that angle). So the Laboratory Annex lasted until between 1963 and 1980) - could it have been demolished at about the same time as Old Main Annex, about 1965-66, perhaps?

Also, the Career Services building hasn't been added as I can find very little documentation on its history. It was built as a private home; in the 1980s it was the residence house of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity, in that order, if I remember correctly. Marshall took it over about 1990-1 and called it the Placement Center (which itself moved from its office in the center of the first floor of Prichard Hall). Again, I haven't found online details, but delving into some old student catalogs could nail down some of the chronology for all three of the mentioned buildings.

In addition, all I remember about the building that became the Erickson Alumni Center was that it housed two businesses (one of them dealing with watches, perhaps) in the 1980s, but the building itself is quite a bit older. 147.70.242.40 18:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

    • It was the home of the Kincaid-Mann Mortuary, actually. The current Alumni Center will be superseded by a new building about two years after they raise the money for it (design has been approved; last time I checked, they're about a million dollars away from breaking ground). B.Wind 06:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Also... if I remember correctly, Cabell Hall was the 20th Street Church when I was living in Huntington. As I understand, the building is older than at least one section of Old Main, and most likely older than most of it. The church was very much active in 1905 as a web article indicated that a pastor was "returned" that year.[1]147.70.242.40 20:37, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
    • It was the United Methodist Church, which seemed to be going through a bunch of changes organizationally at that time (1997-98) as that was about the same time period in which they closed Sue Bennett College in London, Kentucky, after 101 years of operation.B.Wind 06:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)