Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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26 Campus The construction of Wakefield Science Hall was made possible by an initial pledge of $35,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Wakefield under the condition that the College could raise an equal sum. The College accomplished this in 1920 and on June 2, Alumni Day, the cornerstone was laid. In 1925, the Science Departments were moving into Wakefield Science Hall, which was finally finished and furnished at a cost of $165,000. The walls were gray native limestone, hammer dressed and trimmed with lighter colored sawed stone. . : jM ) a ' T ' , - v| Htj

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I Alumni Hall The original Alumni Building, first used daughter and one of Park ' s most generous publicly for the Junior-Senior Banquet in benefactors. May 1904 was considered architecturally one of the most beautiful buildings on Old Alumni burned on May 6, 1957 and campus. It had an auditorium with 300 was replaced the following year by Alumni opera chairs donated by Mrs. George A. Hall, which now houses the Art and Lawrence, Colonel George S. Park ' s Theatre departments. Campus 25

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Meetin’ House It looks like a cross between a glorified with belfrey, arched doorway, and general school house and a dignified little church of Colonial makeup. The interior houses the south. But really it is the Park Meetin ' chandeliers, and an old grey-stone House. fireplace. It was built in 1937. The meeting house is The building is now used for a number of a replica of early American architecture, things for both the students and faculty. Campus 27