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After a subscription campaign to raise money for a college library was begun in 1850, construction on Morgan Library started in 1852. Henry Sykes, who also designed the Octagon a number of years before, designed the building. Original construction was completed in 1853. |
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After completion of Converse in 1916, Morgan Library became Morgan Hall, home to a variety of departments including the Fine Arts Department, who called Morgan home until the construction of Mead in 1949. An addition was made in 1883, and James Kellum Smith designed a remodeling of the stack section of the library for use as a "clubroom for the Lord Jeffery Amherst Club" in 1935 (King, 313). The building is currently home to sociology and history department offices. |
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View these other Amherstiana items featuring the Alumni Gymnasium: • President's House and College Library Stereoview • From College Tower, Amherst, Looking W.N.W. Stereoview • From College Tower, Amherst, Looking N.W. Stereoview • View of Amherst Stereoview • Class of 1867 Stereoview • The G. L. Nichols Collection: Morgan and College Hall photo (lower right) |
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©1998-2002 Brian T. Meacham info@amherstiana.org |