A photograph of a man putting out a fire with an extinguisher as part of fire safety training with a large group observing in front of WVU Mechanical Hall.
Athletic Field, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
View of the field which is now where the MountainLair is located. In the background is the Armory and to the right of that is Mechanical Hall, which burned down in 1956. To the right is Commencement Hall, with grandstand attached to the back. To the left and up the hill is Stalnakar Hall.
Fraternity Row, North High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1960- 1965
Description:
View of students walking around North High Street. Fraternity houses on left side of street. Ruins of Mechanical Hall II on front left. Girls dorm, Boreman, on right. Men's Halls, later changed to Boreman when girls were to live in them.
Mechanical Hall II stood where the Mountainlair parking garage plaza is today, bordering Prospect Street. The old Armory building bounded N. High Street enclosing the area that is now the Mountainlair plaza for a football field that was used until the stadium below Woodburn Hall was built.
Israel C. White Family Feeding Chickens behind Mechanical Hall II, West Virginia University
Date:
ca. 1915
Description:
'I. C. White, wife and daughter on White property, site of present Chemistry Building Annex. The entire White property now is the site of the Mineral Industry (White Hall) Building, Library, Chemistry Building, and Annex. In front of Mechanical Hall, Prospect Street where library is now.'
