All color photographs taken in January, 1975 by retired Art Professor Ken Wilson.
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The Waller annex is vanishing as the Union quietly sits next door. |
The west end of the Union next to Waller. On the wall can be seen the outline of the old gym, which was completed in 1894, converted into the Husky Lounge in the 1950s, and demolished in 1971 to make room for the Kehr Union. |
The demolition work continues. On the Union at right can be seen the plywood suspended out from the roof line and the netting that was used to shield the building from falling debris.
A small pile of rubble is all that is left of a building that even more than Carver Hall was the center of the Bloomsburg campus for 100 years. As the 1975 student yearbook The Obiter said of Waller's loss, it was "A price too high to pay, for something that was beyond the scope of dollars and cents." Waller Hall has now been gone for 30 years but is still not forgotten.
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Updated 1/28/05