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Orchard Hill
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An account of the resource
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McIntire House
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The McIntire House, built in 1928, was the home of the late H. Ruth McIntire, a professor of Cooperative Extension for 34 years until her retirement in 1958. In 1967, McIntire donated the house, along with 1.7 acres of land, to the university in order to commemorate past university presidents Hugh P. Baker and Ralph A. Van Meter, as well as nature education professor William Gould Vinal. These three men, as well as McIntire herself, were enthusiasts of recreation and nature conservation.
The McIntire house was located near on Clark Hill road, in close proximity to the Butterfield dormitory. While it is unclear how exactly the house was utilized after its donation, it is likely that it handled the affairs of the surrounding nature sanctuary. In 1987 the house received a new name and a new purpose; it became known as the William S. Clark International Center and was the new home to the International Programs office. The buildings new name and purpose was meant to honor William S. Clark, the university’s first president, for his help in establishing the Imperial College of Agriculture in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1876. The building was now meant to handle many of the university’s international affairs including the Foreign Students Office, the overseas study and exchange programs, and other international programs.
On April 11, 1991, the McIntire house was destroyed in a fire that State officials believed was intentionally set. There was close to $500,000 worth of damage done, including extensive smoke damage to the entire second floor. Student and faculty alike attempted to salvage what they could from the remains by sorting through documents, removing the burned edges, and placing them in protective plastic sheets. Fortunately, many of the important documents that the building held had duplicate copies stored in other buildings.
The building was unable to recover from the damage and International Programs was relocated to the Goodell Building. It is unclear whether or not there was any further mention of the fire’s origin beyond the State’s speculation that it was set intentionally. In a bizarre coincidence, H. Ruth McIntire, who had been living in town since her retirement, died on the very same day the building met its own demise.
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Aggie Inn
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<p>The story of the Aggie Inn is not one that is easily uncovered. An undated photograph that carries the caption, “Aggie Inn and Post Office,” shows a barn-like building and an old clear-globed gas pump. A jalopy which dates the photo between the 1890's and 1920's sits between the building and the pump. There is some information about the Inn as a restaurant. However, a review of M.A.C.'s Trustees minutes, handbooks, yearbooks, student newspapers and general histories reveals little about the building as a gas station.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Amherst’s 1917 resident directory lists Philip Babcock as a student and manager of Ye Aggie Inn. The directory lists other employees, and the address of the Inn as 103 Pleasant. The Aggie Inn was an important part of student life in the early twentieth century. The 1921 student handbook describes the Aggie Inn as “a favorite rush eating house.'” That the Inn was a favorite is not readily apparent in all cases. The short-lived student newspapers of M.A.C. and the yearbooks are useful sources for finding information about Ye Aggie Inn. The Squib for the years 1915-17, contain a considerable amount of information about the Aggie Inn. One ad in the Squib reads:</p>
<address style="text-align:center;"><em>“Ye Aggie Inn”</em></address><address style="text-align:center;"><em></em><em>“Everything is so Tasty” </em></address><address style="text-align:center;"><em>Student supplies of all kinds in our store. </em></address><address style="text-align:center;"><em>Ingersol Watches in Celluloid Cases $1.00.</em></address>
<p style="text-align:left;">Another advertisement in the paper noted that the Squib was available for sale in Amherst at “Adam's Drug Store, Aggie Inn, College Drug Store, Hastings and the College Store.” Kollege Kandy Kitchen advertised in the Squib that their home-made ice cream was sold at the Aggie Inn; this ad mentioned that the Aggie Inn was located across from city hall.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">That the ice cream is mentioned is interesting when compared to the poetic sentiments of a group of contributing students, which shows that not everyone felt the same fond regard for the Aggie Inn:</p>
<address style="text-align:center;">"How we miss thee, old Dog-cart</address><address style="text-align:center;">Without thee now the place is bare;</address><address style="text-align:center;">Though many others do upstart,</address><address style="text-align:center;">Like Aggie Inn, now standing there.</address><address style="text-align:center;">...And now- I sit down to a table</address><address style="text-align:center;">and eat what now, as best I'm able...</address><address style="text-align:center;">...The Chicken dinners to me have no taste,</address><address style="text-align:center;">The weakly ice cream is a weakly waste..."</address>
<p style="text-align:left;">Apparently, some students felt that the Aggie Inn was more of an upstart than a restaurant, with a “weary bill of fare.”</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The student handbook, The Index for the class of 1929, describes the Inn more positively, as “An Ideal Place to Eat, Owned and Operated by Students and Aggie Men.” That the Inn was owned and operated by students and Aggie men may evidence an attempt to create an alternative to the college's boarding offerings after 1903. The Inn was also described as having all sorts of items for sale: “Student supplies of all kinds sold there including Banners, Pillows, Pennants, Candy, Cigarettes, and Tobacco.” Page 80 of the Index has a captivating poem about one Roger Thomas Hintze:</p>
<address style="text-align:center;">“Then here's to our Jolly Roger</address><address style="text-align:center;">The pirate of “Ye Aggie Inn”;--</address><address style="text-align:center;">The way that he captures our shekels</address><address style="text-align:center;">Is nothing much less than a sin.”</address>
<p style="text-align:left;">It is not clear if Roger was a manager at the Inn or not, but being labeled a pirate who captured shekels indicates that he took students' money more or less against their will, perhaps for their lack of a better place to dine, or by charging high prices. The Dog-Cart poem seems to indicate that Aggie Inn was an 'upstart', and not original to the area it serviced. The title of the poem also begs the question if the Inn was the Hash House commonly referred to throughout various student publications. If so, it was the scene of many student revelries and romps. However, much remains to be discovered about the history of the structure itself, including exactly when the structure was built, and its connection to the gas pump pictured in the image.</p>
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Southwest Campus & Commonwealth Avenue
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An account of the resource
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Alumni Athletic Field
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What is now Haigis Mall was merely an open field at the University’s inception. Later, it became the Alumni Athletic Field, and finally Haigis Mall. Located to the East of Lincoln Avenue, and South of Ellis Drive, neither of which run through the campus anymore, what would eventually become the Alumni Athletic Field, and eventually Haigis Mall, appeared on the 1913 campus map merely as the “Athletic Field.” As of 1935, Alumni Athletic Field was first given its official name. Images from the 1943 Massachusetts State College yearbook show a dirt covered track with a soccer field in the center.
When the university campus expanded following WWII to accommodate the large number of veterans who were entering as students, the athletic facilities were not ignored. The Alumni Athletic Field grew to include a baseball diamond, track, and soccer fields. A new parking lot was also built nearby.
In the 1960s, UMass-Amherst was gearing for the most rapid expansion the campus had ever seen. The university hired architect Hideo Sasaki to develop a master plan to modernize UMass. Alumni Athletic Field and the Southern Parking Area were to be destroyed and the Whitmore Administration building was constructed to the west of where the field had stood, while the Business Administration Building was built to the east of the site. As Whitmore was being constructed, students continued to play soccer on the Alumni Athletic Field. Sasaki intended for the Whitmore Administration Building to “provide visual unity to the wide expanse” of the Mall.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, the area that had once been the Alumni Athletic Field was shaped into the campus we know today. Haigis Mall, Herter Hall, and the Fine Arts Center were being constructed where students had once played sports. Today, Haigis Mall serves as a popular bus stop for the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA). As one proceeds South, Haigis Mall currently is a grassy peaceful paradise where it is common for University students to study on a sunny day. Flags fly over the southern portion of Haigis Mall and there are shrubs which spell the initials for UMass Amherst.
In summary, what began as an open field and a quiet, peaceful portion of grassland was transformed over the course of a century into a revamped and modern portion of a college campus. While the Alumni Athletic Field was destroyed due to the construction of Whitmore and the Fine Arts Center, other athletic fields were built towards the western end of campus. Following the destruction of Alumni Athletic Field, Haigis Mall became a wonderful environment in which scholars could walk and socialize between classes. Unfortunately for some, it is clear Haigis Mall will forever confuse and disappoint freshman students who are looking to go shopping on campus.
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UMass Special Collections and University Archives
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RG150-0003728, RG141-0009468
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Orchard Hill
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Mills House (Now New Africa House)
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An account of the resource
Mills House was a former dormitory in the Central Residential Area of the UMass Campus. In 1970, Mills House was shut down as a dormitory and shortly after reopened as what today is known as the New Africa House, an academic space and home of the W.E.B. DuBois African American Studies Department. The story of the “loss” of Mills House and its transition from dormitory to academic space paints a revealing portrait of the state of race relations at UMass in the late 1960s and 1970s. These images show the exterior of the building, as well as some of the damage that resulted from tense situations that led to the closing of Mills House, and the opening of New Africa House.
Constructed along the eastern side of Infirmary Way in 1948, Mills House was the fourth dormitory in Central (then known as Clark Hill). Like all the Central dormitories, it was built in Georgian Revival style. A year later, Brook House, a mirror structure to Mills, would be completed. In the following decade, Baker and Van Meter would also be constructed rounding out Central in its current form.
Mills House was unique in that it was among the first dormitories to house black students. Black students were never outright denied admission to the university. They were, however, heavily discouraged from applying, and for most intents and purposes de facto barred from entry en masse until the 1960s. In the later half of the decade, noticing the intense under-representation of black students on campus, members of the UMass faculty came together to create the Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black Students (CCEBS), or as it is referred to in some early documents the CCNES (Committee for the Collegiate Education of Negro Students), in 1967. The mission of the CCEBS was to reach out and recruit black students from out-of-state and from within the Commonwealth. Over the next few years, CCEBS would bring upwards of 150 Black students onto campus.
As these new black students came to campus under the CCEBS program, they were largely limited as to where they could live on campus. The majority of these students ended up assigned to live in Mills House, though there are mentions of black students living in the other parts of Central, and even in Orchard Hill. As a consequence, Mills House quickly became the heart of the black student community on campus. During this time period, there was the emergence of the African Students Association (ASA) on campus, which held regular meetings on the first floor of Mills House. The ASA played a pivotal role in the story of Mills House over the next few years before its transition into the New Africa House.
Two major racially charged incidents would concern Mills House in the time between the formation of the CCEBS and when it became known as New Africa House. The first of these incidents occurred on November 5th, 1968, only a day after the presidential election of that year. According to most sources, a black student named James R. Hall was visiting a white friend of his on Orchard Hill when they were both attacked by a group of five white students, mostly fraternity boys. Allegedly, according to one report, their attackers told Hall and his friend that since Nixon had won the election, “niggers don’t belong at UMass anymore.” A couple stray clippings from unidentified newspapers claim that such an incident never occurred, and that Hall and his friend later admitted in police custody that the incident was a hoax to stir up sympathy for the black student community.
Real or fabricated, the beating of Hall and his friend served as rallying cry to members of the African Students Association, headquartered in Mills House. The next day, November 6th, an organized march of up to 100 black students departed from Mills House headed for Whitmore Administration Building. Upon arrival, these students staged a sit-in protest against the beatings, and read a list of 20 demands to be met by the university administration. These included, amongst others: a public apology from the administration, a minimum of 15 black police officers and the disarming of all police, black doctors on campus, sensitivity training for all faculty and staff, tougher consequences for racist behavior by students and faculty, and funds for the refurbishing of Mills House. After negotiations with then president Lederle and company, the crowd dispersed. The only demand the university met in full was the allocation of additional funds for the refurbishing of Mills House. They absolutely refused to disarm the police, and said since the university police force only consisted of15 positions, all of which were filled, they could not hire any new black officers. They did however agree to hire more black security guards, and to provide mandatory sensitivity training to all police and security personnel.
The ASA licked its wounds and UMass went without another major racial incident until 1970. On February 26th, the ASA was in the process of conducting a regular meeting when it was cut abruptly short by a loud crash from outside. Dan Brown, a black student, had rear ended the car of white student athlete on Infirmary Way. What followed was a heating exchanged between the two which developed into a fistfight. Soon students from both sides, black and white, joined in and initiated what one source called a “race riot”. Outnumbered, the black students eventually retreated into Mills House. Once inside, they expelled all the white students living in the building into the snow, moved furniture to create a barricade and began what became a multi-day occupation of Mills House. One of the expelled white student’s father was a state legislator who within the hour received a call about “rampaging lacks” on UMass campus. The black students, again as in ’68, set forth a list of demands. This time they demanded the university create an Afro-American Studies Department, and establish a Black Cultural Center on campus. The following days would be an intense series of negotiations between the Mills House occupiers, black faculty, university police and administration. Eventually after a 5AM emergency meeting (then) Dean Fields, with a vote from the white students expelled from Mills House, agreed to have the building vacated and shut down as a dormitory by the end of the month, and reopened as a Black Cultural Center. The displaced white students would be housed temporarily by the Math Department in Arnold House. The university approved the creation of the Afro-American Studies Department, something it had been on the fence about for some time, and bequeathed responsibility for this new cultural space onto the fledgling department. This “Black Cultural Center” would take the form of the New Africa House on campus today. New Africa’s heritage as Mills House, and the events leading up to its conversion, are largely obscured and underrepresented in the grander discussion of campus history. Perhaps the university would like to forget the racial tensions of its past.
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UMass Special Collections and University Archives
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North Pleasant Street
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An account of the resource
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Frat Row
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“Frat Row” was a staple of the University’s Greek Life. The houses at 401, 395, 389, 387, 385 North Pleasant Street and the Theta Chi and Phi Sig fraternity houses became what the students coined “Frat Row.” To the students, Frat Row was known as the place to be on the weekends. To the administration, Frat Row was a constant reminder of the “zoomass” party image attached to the university.
In 1885, the strip of North Pleasant Street that came to be known as Frat Row was owned by a small private school named Mount Pleasant Seminary. The school owned all of the land between East Pleasant Street and North Pleasant Street. But shortly after the Civil War, the Seminary went out of business and put the strips of land up for sale.
In the 1890s and through 1905, professors from the Massachusetts Agricultural College bought land from the seminary in order to build houses for their own personal use. The resulting five houses were constantly used for small amounts of time in the year and with the downward spiral of the economy during The Great Depression, the professors who owned the land decided to rent out the five houses to fraternities and sororities. This was the beginning of Frat Row.
Alpha Tau Gamma (ATG), one of the original fraternities that rented from the professors, established themselves as a non-profit corporation in the late 1930s. In the beginning of 1940, ATG bought 375 North Pleasant Street from the professors and began renting it out to fraternities and sororities of their own choosing. In 1969, ATG bought 387 North Pleasant Street. In 1970, ATG bought their third house at 401 North Pleasant Street. In 1976, ATG took their investment even further and bought the strip of land that connected 386 North Pleasant to 401, which solidified the stretch of land as Frat Row. To further their dominance over North Pleasant Street, ATG bought houses 389 and 395 in the years 1985 and 1987.
Throughout the years, the administration became more and more frustrated with Frat Row and the constant chaos that occurred on the property on the weekends. Over and over again the administration tried to find ways to demolish the buildings, but every attempt failed. All of the houses were at least 80 years old and were grandfathered in before a zoning bylaw banned houses in that area. The only way for the administration to get rid of Frat Row was to negotiate buying the houses from ATG.
The houses became more and more vacant between semesters, and in the early 2000s ATG began negotiations to sell the properties to the university. In 2006, ATG finally settled with the administration to sell all of their property for 2.5 million dollars. The deal went through, and in 2006, the university demolished the empty houses at 375, 387, 389, 395, and 401 North Pleasant Street.
As for ATG, the fraternity donated $500,001 of the money they received from the sale to the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass to establish an endowed professorship for the position of the director of the school. The professorship is called the ATG Fred. P Jeffery Chair, which is named after the school’s former director who passed away in 1997.
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UMass Special Collections and University Archives
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Central Campus
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The Blue Wall as a Bar
Description
An account of the resource
While many students shuffle in and out of UMass’ Blue Wall each day, few are aware that the modest cafeteria was once one of the wildest and most popular bars in Amherst. Throughout the 1970s and early 80s, the Blue Wall was notorious for being able to draw a line of students stretching down the length of the Campus Center Concourse, with its cheap beer, rock concerts, and comedy nights. The raised platform to the right of the Blue Wall’s entrance, which now serves as additional seating, was once a stage for popular local bands such as Willow Creek, The Stand, The Neighborhoods, and even the famous Cars.
The Blue Wall was far from a glamorous hang out, as alumnus Robert Griffin recalled: “In terms of the décor, it was a dive- pretty much a huge room with concrete walls and a perpetual odor of stale beer.” Another alumnus, Jeffrey Mackenzie, even remembers a frequent performer at the venue named “Sweet Pie,” a nudist who played “boogie woogie piano” wearing only a loincloth. Yet despite its quirks, the Blue Wall was one of the most beloved spots on campus, frequently drawing a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of students who would gather at the base of the stage to dance and bob their heads to the music of the performers.
To be sure, the Blue Wall was not only popular for its entertainment. The bar was famously ranked as one of the largest consumers of beer on the Eastern seaboard, with 1,800 kegs drained each year and $600,000 earned in annual revenue. One of the Blue Wall’s most popular traditions was the Friday afternoon “Happy Hour,” when the bar would offer reduced drink prices and open the draft taps at 3 o’clock, leaving them continuously flowing for three hours. Having such a heavy drinking culture openly endorsed by UMass often created a strange university setting. One alumnus recalled a St. Patrick’s day when he had a few drinks with his friends at the Blue Wall before going to a scheduled appointment with his math professor: “When I showed up after one or two toasts to the Irish, he gave me a funny look. I explained to him that it was St. Patrick’s Day and he understood completely…I guess the point is, it was kind of interesting having a bar on campus. It certainly added a certain ambiance to the campus.” However, the Blue Wall’s wild ambiance of the 1970s would be short lived. Since the drinking age had been lowered to 18 in 1973, reckless drinking habits among young people increased across the nation. As a result, the drinking age was raised to 20 in 1979. Though the Blue Wall continued to draw crowds by allowing underage students to attend events with wrist bands and a separate seating section, it lost $280,000 in revenue the year the drinking age went up. Furthermore, increased anxiety over excessive drinking led to stricter law enforcement, causing many students to seek other venues. In 1981, the university teamed with Amherst Police to launch a $30,000 campaign to combat drunk driving. Peer Educators set up a table with a breathalyzer at the exit of the bar in order to ensure that students over the legal limit would not get behind the wheel. The campaign also increased police road patrols, including a weekend “Speed-Alcohol Enforcement Program” which resulted in the stopping of 640 vehicles in the first semester it was introduced, 490 of which received tickets for violations. Just three years later in 1984 Massachusetts outlawed “Happy Hours,” resulting in the end of one of the Blue Wall’s most beloved traditions. The following year, the campus bar received its fatal blow: the drinking age was raised to 21, leading to the university’s decision to cease alcohol sales in the Blue Wall.
With alcohol gone from the popular hangout, the university struggled to capture the old spirit of the Blue Wall through the new “Campus Coffeehouse,” which was installed in place of the bar. The chairperson of the Campus Center/Student Union Board of Governors, Alex Zucker, complained in the Daily Collegian that his proposal for a dance concert in the Blue Wall was repeatedly turned down, writing: “I was told that the Coffeehouse was available only for ‘mellow’ jazz music two nights a week and occasional Saturday evening dance parties…they were clearly dead set against any type of programming which did not fit into their perception of what the Coffeehouse clientele preferred.” After student outrage at these refusals, the Director of Auxiliary Services overturned the decision, and allowed for an “un-bar” night with a “Clash of Bands” concert in the Blue Wall. Despite the music and variety of non-alcoholic juice cocktails served, the venue was unable to garner the same popularity that it once had, and soon after ceased its un-bar nights all together.
However, in 2003 the Blue Wall experienced an unexpected revival. Seeking to recreate the sense of campus community of the 1970s and prevent students from driving off campus to drink, Auxiliary Services chose to reopen the bar. After a much hyped opening night which managed to draw in hundreds of students, the bar received a scathing review in the Daily Collegian. Many students complained that there wasn’t a big enough dance floor, not enough T.V.s, bad lighting, etc. After failing to attract sufficient business, the Blue Wall bar closed for the last time in 2005. Though the Blue Wall still serves as a popular campus eatery, it stands as only a shadow of what was once the heart of student life on campus.
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UMass Special Collections and University Archives
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Title
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Fort Devens
Description
An account of the resource
Fort Devens was established in 1917 in Avery, Massachusetts as an army base. The base later served as a demobilization center for New England troops; after World War II, the fort was converted into a temporary campus for the University of Massachusetts.
The G.I. Bill was passed in 1944 for returning World War II veterans that provided a variety of benefits, such as college tuition. Colleges across the country were flooded with students and could not provide additional space for many returning veterans. The university responded to these demands by quickly constructing additional housing for the veterans, but space was still an issue. A survey conducted by Massachusetts colleges in May 1946 indicated that 2,800 eligible veterans had been turned away due to crowded conditions. Not only was housing limited, but classroom space was becoming a problem as well.
The university and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts responded to this problem by turning to Fort Devens. Having been declared excess and put on caretaker status, it was an ideal area to serve as an institution. The campus operated from September 1946 to June 1949 and because it was temporary, the courses offered at Fort Devens were limited to the basic and conventional courses found in the first two years of major institutions. The campus was a considerable size, able to enroll 1,310 students in its first semester and 1,764 a year later.
Classrooms and laboratories were converted from warehouses, barracks, theaters, and clubhouses. A medical exam building was converted into eight biology and physics laboratories and there was even room for a gymnasium. One aspect of this temporary campus that was different from a traditional campus was the housing. Dormitories were converted from barracks and instead of the typical two to four students per room, twenty students were assigned to a single large room. These noisy and unfavorable conditions made it difficult for the students to enjoy any privacy.
The library on campus had trouble acquiring a considerable budget in its first year. A letter written by the Librarian R. Malcolm Stills stated that the library budget had been neglected for weeks. “Does the budget for books,” Stills asked, “have to be bulked with footballs, crepe paper and cleaning powders? […] Books are its tools, and the Library is still the heart of any worthwhile educational institution.” The library soon acquired a sufficient budget although it was considerably smaller than that of comparable libraries. Statistics show that other institutions across the state had on average 62 books per student while Fort Devens had only seven.
In April of 1949, Fort Devens finished its service as a temporary college campus. Of the students in attendance, forty percent were reassigned to UMass Amherst, 18.3 percent transferred to other colleges, and 8.6 percent left Fort Devens with no report of their activity available. Fort Devens later served as a reception center for the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and despite efforts to keep it open, Devens closed in 1995.
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UMass Special Collections and University Archives
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RG150-0004298, RG150-0004299, RG150-0004306, RG150-0004305
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North Pleasant Street
Description
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Marshall Annex
Description
An account of the resource
<p>The Marshall Annex was an ever-changing fixture of the UMass campus for many years before it was eventually demolished in 2006. Originally, the building stood as a barracks building at Westover Field, an Air Force base in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The barracks were built as temporary structures for the newly established base in 1940. After World War II, however, the base no longer saw the need for the temporary barracks, and tore them down. Simultaneously, UMass was experiencing a dramatic increase in enrollment due to the influx of veterans returning home. Therefore, in 1947 one of the demolished barracks was transported to the UMass campus and reassembled on North Pleasant Street to serve as additional lab space for Marshall Hall. Much like its original purpose as an Air Force barracks, the Annex was only meant to provide temporary space for classes until permanent structures could be built. However, the make-shift Marshall Annex stood for 59 years after it was first delivered to campus. It was originally used as a lab station, and later on served as an art building; home to metal-working, wood, and art studios. The images show a view of the exterior of the Annex, and an oil painting of the interior of Marshall Annex when it was used as studio and classroom space. Pang-Chieh Hsu, an MFA student in the UMass art department finished his painting <em>Plaster Classroom</em> in 2002.</p>
<p>While many students and professors harbored an affection for the quirky, historic building, there was some resentment over the dilapidated nature of Marshall Annex. John Townsend, an art professor who worked in the building, complained that an experiment on quails once performed in the Annex left the building “smelling like a chicken coop” for ten years. The bitterness came to a head when the building’s neighbor, the Foundry Building, was destroyed in a fire in 2003. Like the Marshall Annex, the Foundry Building was used for welding and metal-work, and was also a dry, wooden structure with only local alarms and no sprinkler system. Art professors and students began to fear that a similar disaster could happen in the Marshall Annex, creating a demand for modern facilities for the Art Department. Norman Philips, a retired art professor, stated: “The Art Department was always clamoring for a new building. I think it’s obvious the Art Department got the dregs.”</p>
<p>Indeed, by the early 2000’s the Marshall Annex was in rough repair. The building was scheduled to be torn down in 2002 after an electrical fire, however the Art Department requested a delay in the demolition until another location could be found for the art and metal studios. Instead, the university sent a contractor to update the antique wiring. Though much of the wiring was brought up to code, wiring in some classrooms remained unmodified. Soon after, however, a new art building was finally promised to the department. This building was named the Studio Arts Building and was completed in 2008.</p>
<p>On September 6, 2006 the Marshall Annex was at last demolished. Ironically, though the Art Department had been advocating for a new building for years, the university tore the building down to make way for the 114.5 million dollar Integrated Sciences Building included under the same plan as the Studio Arts Building. However, just as the Air Force barracks was reborn as the Marshall Annex, the building was given new life in the Integrated Sciences Building. The contractors were able to recycle 100% of the steel from the Marshall Annex in the construction of the Integrated Sciences Building, which still stands on North Pleasant Street as a subtle homage to the old barracks and the Marshall Annex.</p>
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"After 59 Years, Marshall Annex Demolished." In the Loop, News for Staff & Faculty. September 7, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20080609064336/http://www.umass.edu/loop/lookingback/articles/38479.php.
Hsu, Pang-Chieg, Plaster Classroom, oil on panel, 24" x 23," 2002. http://www.umassmag.com/postcards/postcardw2k3_ad.html
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Federal Circle
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Federal Circle, along with Commonwealth Circle, was an area developed at the university directly after the Second World War to accommodate veteran students and their families. It was located along Lincoln Avenue, on the site of the former R.O.T.C. cavalry field. Federal Circle was comprised of five houses: Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Plymouth and Suffolk, which were named after counties in Massachusetts. The images show the exterior and interior of Hampshire House, and of Suffolk House as it was being constructed.
In 1944, the G.I. Bill was passed for returning World War II veterans that provided a variety of benefits, including money for college tuition. By the end of 1945 the university’s fraternity houses were completely full as were the dormitories, and additional facilities were needed to house returning veterans and their families the following term. The enrollment during this time was approximately 1,000 students and 220 soldiers. The university expected an enrollment of 2,000 students in the fall of 1946, and needed additional housing for 800 students. The plan was to rapidly build eight dormitory and apartment buildings which would house 50 married and 224 single veterans for a cost of $400,000. The buildings in Federal Circle were constructed with plain concrete and brick, and in general lacked historic style and architectural details because the immediate need for housing took precedent over aesthetic value. Although they were hastily built, these buildings were stolid and not meant for temporary housing as Commonwealth Circle was.
Before completion, there were several nicknames given to the plain concrete buildings such as “Shackville,” “Pneumonia Row,” and “the Chicken Coops,” but an article from 1946 described the new students as being delighted by the housing. The apartments were fully furnished and provided bedding, towels, and other necessities. Don Cadigan ’39 was in charge of Veteran Housing on campus and saw to it that the size of the veteran’s family was taken into consideration when given assignments, as the apartments ranged in size.
Almost two decades later, the problem of housing again emerged at the university. The baby boomers that were born after World War II were about to enter college and housing was needed to meet this new wave of students. Plans were put in place for a much bigger and more permanent cluster of housing, known today as Southwest. Plymouth and Suffolk houses were demolished to make room for the new construction on campus, and Federal Circle itself vanished from memory as the remaining buildings receded into the background, overlooked by thousands of students on their way to class.
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Old Chapel as a library
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Few knowledge seekers could visit the DuBois Library without also observing the picturesque Old Chapel, which once functioned as the university’s library, quietly situated below the looming tower’s rise. Disproportionately large, the DuBois library is perhaps the most visible landmark around; and its size reflects the multiplicity of studies offered at the university. In the days of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the Old Chapel was a modern library and seemed as central to the scenery and student life as DuBois library is today. Similarly, Old Chapel’s smaller size and varied uses also reflect the simpler needs of the time. The Old Chapel’s diminished stature in comparison to the exclamatory DuBois skyscraper emphasizes a reversal from religious to academic priorities in the everyday lives of Umass Amherst students.
It was apparently requisite during those early days that a student should be a Christian first and a student second. Student handbooks, which the YMCA published and distributed at M.A.C. (later Massachusetts State College) from 1890 to 1923, affirm the importance of Christianity in student life. The 1890 student handbook certainly affirms a heavy Christian influence over student life especially if one should join with the YMCA.
‘Our course of study, corps of thorough instructors…offers you great advantages for mental improvement.’ “But do not allow this to be the chief aim of your ambition, thinking it is sufficient to fit you for life’s battles. We beseech you to look after your spiritual training as well… The spiritual culture you may thus gain, together with the intellectual power acquired here will be conducive to the up-building of a strong Christian character…”
The YMCA was allowed to give the first introduction a student officially received from the MAC, which reflects the administration’s general endorsement of the YMCA message.
Whether or not one joined the YMCA, the worship that took place in the Chapel played a central role in the lives of M.A.C’s students. Again, this is plainly stated in the 1890 handbook: “All the students unless excused by the president, are expected to attend church in the ‘stone chapel’, on Sunday, at 10:30 AM where a preaching service is held." The building currently known as the Old Chapel was intended to alleviate crowding in the original ‘Old Chapel’ (Chemical laboratory building), and that fact has been well documented. It is perhaps less widely known that although the Chapel held Sunday services in 1890, weekday prayer services (at 8:15 AM) continued to be held at the ‘Old Chapel’ for some time thereafter. The YMCA also held Bible classes and prayer meetings after Sunday services and on Thursday evening. Many hours each day could therefore be consumed primarily in religious activities.
The dominant location of the Chapel also reflects the importance of religion in student life. The Chapel’s prominence above the early campus landscape was again described in the 1890 student handbook: “As we walk up to college from town, we pass almost under the New Stone Chapel where Sunday services and Commencement exercises are held.” As the college librarian, President Goodell’s office was also located at the Chapel, according to the faculty roster. The handbook also boasted over 10,000 books in the New Chapel’s library. Interestingly, the library’s hours of operation were limited to only afternoons and evenings, perhaps leaving plenty of time for religious devotions.
Today, Old Chapel is only vicariously remembered as a former library of the campus. Mandatory attendance at Sunday services is no longer enforced, and often not remembered. Once, spiritual training was considered superior to academic prerogatives. Now, research and academic study are the lifeblood of the campus. Since the school is no longer affiliated with a particular faith, the university’s connection with religion has long since faded. It probably wasn’t coincidental that the president of the M.A.C. chose to locate his office at the ‘New Chapel’ if he truly was endorsing Christianity. Indeed, if Goodell had chosen to locate his office elsewhere, his decision may well have raised some righteous eyebrows. Religious services are no longer held at the Old Chapel. Currently, the fate of Old Chapel is undecided. The Old Chapel has been fittingly described as “the heart and soul” of campus, and at one time, it truthfully was. Though the Chapel’s grand architecture may move the heart in a way once routine, the skyward specter of the DuBois library calls to mind the shift from religious values to intellectual or academic ones. A remnant of times gone by, the Chapel’s silent stones truly intimate a forgotten story of Lost Umass’ value system.
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RG150-0004921, RG150-0005002, RG150-0005004