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- Founding - Old
Sem - Name - Women
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- King Chapel - Physical
Education - May Music Festivals
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After 1892
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It's called Old
Sem now, but back in 1853 it was brand new, a towering brick
building that made an elegant cap on George Bryant Bowman's hilltop
campus. The Seminary Building was the campus' first structure, and
when it opened in November 1853 it contained a kitchen, dining room,
servants' quarters, men's and women's classrooms, and living space
for teachers.
Students started calling it Old Sem as early as 1885,
not out of affection but because the building was starting to show
its age. In 1886 it housed the chemistry and physics alt="Tours & Maps"s
and was called Science Hall. In 1892 it was topped by a mansard
roof to add three fourth-floor art studios.
The building has gone up in flames twice. It burned
to the ground in 1924 and was rebuilt that same year, minus the
mansard roof. Fire partially destroyed Old Sem again in 1927. Today
Old Sem houses the president's office, and administrative offices.
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