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The Quadrangle - Part I
Original Buildings - 1947-57
Early Quadrangle Buildings / Academy Hall
The quadrangle is a time-honored design for academic buildings. Medieval parts of Oxford and Cambridge are open-air quadrangles. Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s quadrangle. Jones, Jr. designed two quadrangles for BJU’s Greenville campus. Faculty Court, located on Pleasantburg Drive near Grace Haight Dormitory, was part of the original campus construction and housed faculty and staff. The Jones, Jr. family originally lived in a Faculty Court apartment. With poured concrete floors, cinder block walls and a brick exterior it was built to last. It was demolished in the 1990s. Today that campus real estate is a parking lot.
While it was intended to be the Greenville location of BJA, the Academy Quadrangle did not originally serve the Academy. In fact, for its first few years, it was not really a quadrangle. Nor was its original construction built to last. But with much repurposing and many renovations the Academy Quadrangle is still in use. Early Quadrangle Buildings
Aerial photographs of the early campus show buildings on three sides of what would become the Academy Quadrangle. Academy Hall (today’s Academy Main) is missing. Close examination reveals that each of the three sides was two buildings. They were wooden barracks, moved from a temporary World War II army camp in Spartanburg, and set on concrete blocks.
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Laboratory sciences and some home economics courses were not offered the first semester the school was in Greenville. The Alumni building had no such facilities. By the second semester Quadrangle buildings remedied that situation. |
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