Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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1965 1965 1964 The Kokosing Gift Shop operated between 1946 and 1946 in the back room of the former Hayes Grocery building, now occupied by Student Council and the Gambier Ex- perimental College. The three other photographs show buildings demolished to make way for Farr Hall. Arnold’s Kokosing Market stood where Hayes’ Grocery is now, Woolison’s Sohio station on the site of the Pizza Villa, in the former Jacobs Shoe building. The design of Farr Hall was the subject of prolonged haggling between and among the trustees, faculty, and students of Kenyon, and the townspeople of Gambier. The drawing above, which appeared in the Collegian of December 11, 1964, was the architect's third attempt to produce a design acceptable to all parties. It wasn’t. corner of Gaskin and Brooklyn, 1965 I here are no shops in the village except for two provision stores, no drugstore, no movie theater, and only one small neon sign that fee- bly says Laundry to the empty night. Gam- bier is a lonely little town after ten o’clock. 8 c. 1948 — Robert Hillyer “Gambier — Victorian Remnant in Ohio”. 1953

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I GO! GO! GO! GO! HARRIS H. KHKNCHN mvo «Tout or OAMairn! wavy nu ICE CREAM! 1C OOLO SODA WATER I iKMON A ! K. CIGARS, smoking CHEWING TWfiCCP! «mil TIIIV.» • MiKCTIUXA»l.« t»l III mu »IU. MIT 1911 c. 1874 “The village is incorporated and its population of about 1150 is governed by a Mayor and a Council. Its edu- cational facilities include the grades 1-6 and a day school. A modern san- itary disposal system is maintained and water is supplied by the College. Gambier is located on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and on Ohio State routes 229 and 308.” — from the Mt. Vernon Telephone Directory c. 1895 7

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c. 1885 c. 1870 Rosse Chapel was begun by Chase in 1829; he envi- sioned it as a Gothic structure with a spire at the front and a deep chancel which would have ex- tended forty feet into the present cemetery. He only got as far as finishing the basement before he left; and under his successor. Bishop Charles Mcllvaine. the plans were redrawn in accordance with the then-current Greek revival, resulting in a structure which remains a bit of an architectural oddity among its Gothic neighbors. For lack of money the building wasn’t finished until 1845, and it has been something of a problem child ever since. Shortly after it was completed a heavy snow crushed the roof, and for several years tree trunks, bark and all. were used to prop up the ceiling. In 1871, the newly built Church of the Holy Spirit became the College cha|x l. and Rosse Chapel was nanus! Rosse Hall. It was equipped as a gymnasium in 188-1. and in 18% (having naturally been consecrated for divine wor- ship when first built) it was specially deconsecrated so it could lx used for dances. In May of 1897 some students who had lx en polish- ing the floor for a dance left a pile of oil-soaked rags in a corner; the resulting fire left only portions of two walls and the twin pillars in front, which were incorporated into the reconstructed building, com- pleted in 1900. Rosse continued to serve as a gym- nasium until 1948, when half of an old Marine drill hall was moved to Gambier and became the Werth- eimer Field House. The view at middle left shows the chancel of Rosse during its last years as Chapel. The Bishop Chase memorial plaque which appears in this picture was installed in 1801 and moved to the Church of the Holy Spirit when Rosse was deconsecrated, thus escaping the fire by only a year. At lower left, the interior of Rosse as gymnasium, in use by the student body of the Harcourt Place School for Girls. 1922 9 4 May 9. 1897