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Pennsylvania Easton Lafayette College Pardee Hall c 1910

Pennsylvania Easton Lafayette College Pardee Hall c 1910
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Is this the front or back of Pardee Hall?
A vintage style print of Pardee Hall on the campus of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Pardee Hall completed in 1873 is the oldest building at Lafayette College with it exterior as originally designed. The building was named after Ario Pardee, who donated $250,000 for its construction. It originally housed the college's scientific departments, and currently is home to most of Lafayette's humanities and social science departments.
Pardee Hall, the largest academic building on campus, was devastated by fire twice in the 1800s. One fire began when a science experiment was carelessly left in a lab drawer. The other fire was arson, deliberately set by a professor of moral philosophy and ethics, who reportedly enjoyed watching the building burn from across the Delaware River in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Although Pardee Hall is truly oriented southward, with the gently sloping hill leading to its front entrance, the students refer to this as the "back" of Pardee because the other side (the true back) faces the Quad. During the winter, or after a drenching spring rain, sledding is popular on the hill "behind" Pardee Hall.


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