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This circa 1910 structure was a rooming house for African American male students at the Pennsylvania State College from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as Lincoln Hall, it was the center for black life at that time
The six- to . . . — — Map (db m135647) HM
Ag Experiment Station was housed here beginning in 1889. Following passage of the Hatch Act, which made ongoing federal funds available for the first time. To support agriculture research at universities. Scientific studies here and at other . . . — — Map (db m134716) HM
Ag Hill became the center of agricultural research and instruction at Penn State in the 1800s with the founding of the Experiment Station, followed over the next 25 years by three nearby buildings and the Armsby Calorimeter. With its . . . — — Map (db m134718) HM
Lining the mall are part of an early campus landscaping plan that called for trees and other plantings to be used as an arboretum for teaching and research purposes. While age and disease have taken their toll, Penn State still has one of the . . . — — Map (db m135739) HM
With the arrival in 1894 of Fred Lewis Pattee, for whom Pattee Library is named, Penn State became one of the earliest centers for American Literature Studies—at the time a controversial departure from English Literature. A pioneering scholar . . . — — Map (db m134775) HM
Near this site from 1982 to 1964 stood the Armory which symbolized Penn State's Land-Grant Act commitment to offer military training as part of the nation's tradition of the citizen-soldier. Before World War I, participation in the Cadet Corps was . . . — — Map (db m134751) HM
Used for improved livestock breeding, was made feasible for dairy cattle by the work of Prof. John Almquist, who, beginning in 1944 in Borland Lab, perfected the use of antibiotics to preserve semen and developed commercial methods of using it. His . . . — — Map (db m65583) HM
Renowned meteorologist Hans Panofsky conducted fundamental work at Penn State (1952-82) that led to a new understanding of atmospheric turbulence, air pollution, ozone depletion, and planetary the first to apply computer analysis to weather . . . — — Map (db m135634) HM
Penn State in 1955 became the first university licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission to operate a nuclear reactor as part of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program. Named for Wm. Breazeale, Penn State's first Professor of . . . — — Map (db m135648) HM
Replacing a burned structure, this Spanish Colonial Revival building was erected in 1926 as the new home of the Penn State Photo Shop. Three generations snapped and processed photos here into the 1970s.
From the early 1900s, W.W. Smith had . . . — — Map (db m134737) HM
Professor of English. First woman in her dept (1924), first woman elected to Penn State Alumni Council (1930), friend and counselor to students. — — Map (db m134736) HM
Designed and first operated in 1902 by pioneer animal nutritionist Henry Armsby. The calorimeter was housed in this specially constructed building and monitored an animal's metabolism to determine the net energy value of food-the portion of food . . . — — Map (db m134719) HM
The Schlow Building, designed by State College architect P. Boyd Kapp, was built in 1925 as the 12-unit Campus View Apartments. (This photograph shows the brand-new building.) It was the first State College apartment building with a sprinkler . . . — — Map (db m134741) HM
Completed in 1904 with a gift from Penn State trustee and industrialist Andrew Carnegie, it was the university's first library building. It typefies more than 2,000 college and community libraries built with donations from Carnegie. — — Map (db m134773) HM
As Director of the Home Economics Department (1919-1938), Chace oversaw the establishment of a home economics curriculum, transition of the department to the School of Education, and development of a home economics graduate course of study. — — Map (db m135738) HM
In 1935, under J. Orvis Keller, Penn State centralized its correspondence and evening courses, technical institutes, and most other continuing education offerings. Creating a model adopted by other universities, successors E.L. Keller and Floyd . . . — — Map (db m134780) HM
From 1879 to 1882, Anna M. Cooper, lady principal for the Pennsylvania State College, taught courses in Domestic Economy, including Sewing, Starching and Ironing, Needlework, and House Decoration. In 1907 Penn State created a formal Department of . . . — — Map (db m134729) HM
In 1892, under the direction of Prof. Henry Waters, Penn State became the first American institution of higher education to offer correspondence courses in agriculture. The goal was to make scientific studies available to those persons unable to . . . — — Map (db m65592) HM
Professor of Mathematics. His development of combinatory logic found significant applications in computer programming language. — — Map (db m134735) HM
In 1914, State College architect-builder C.E. Henry erected this four-apartment and commercial building for Peter Hoffer Dale, M.D. During its first 40 years, the Dale Building was a place to buy groceries—one of State College's several small, . . . — — Map (db m135623) HM
Near this site, Professor Paul Schweitzer in 1923 began one of the first systematic research programs in diesel engineering to be undertaken in the U.S. He was joined by K.J. Dejuhasz, and their discoveries over the next 30 years in such fields as . . . — — Map (db m134747) HM
Prof. of Industrial Engineering Amos Neyhart taught America's first classes for Driver Education teachers near this site in 1936, three years after he began the nation's first driver education course at State College High School. He became an . . . — — Map (db m135633) HM
Penn State's first president (1859-64) was a national advocate of adding science, agriculture, & engineering to traditional collegiate studies. Penn State emerged as one of three agricultural college in the U.S. Before the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant . . . — — Map (db m134752) HM
Pine (1888) and Spruce (1889) Cottages are reminders of an earlier era in Penn State's history, when a fledgling institution offered on-campus residences as part of faculty compensation, and when students and teachers mingled in a family-like . . . — — Map (db m134723) HM
Penn State was the first U.S. university to award Baccalaureate (1861) and Graduate (1863) degrees in agriculture. This pioneering effort to formalize higher education in agriculture helped the agricultural sciences to become an accepted and vital . . . — — Map (db m65595) HM
Active on campus and in her community, Haller was an honorary member of Chi Omega sorority, and an advisor to the Panhellenic Council and Penn State chapter of Mortar Board. She was a leader in registering State College for their first vote in 1920. — — Map (db m134726) HM
Professor of Exercise and Sport Psychology. Early advocate of women in sport, developed pioneering graduate program in sport psychology. — — Map (db m134734) HM
Developed by faculty here in the College of Engineering and in the College of Medicine in 1976 to prolong the lives of cardiovascular patients. It pioneered applications of fluid mechanics and was the first surgically implantable, seam-free . . . — — Map (db m135627) HM
Cordelia Hibbs came to Penn State College in 1946 and served as a housing assistant for women students. She was the housemother for Delta Gamma sorority and an advisor to Mortar Board. Hibbs was a member of the Great Meadows Chapter of the Daughters . . . — — Map (db m134728) HM
Established in 1937, Penn State's School of Hospitality Management is one of the nation's oldest and most respected. Its top-ranked undergraduate and doctoral programs prepare global leaders with a rigorous, diverse curriculum focused, since its . . . — — Map (db m134777) HM
For more than a century, the Hotel State College was the first stopping place for new arrivals to State College. The hotel's history began around 1857 with construction by State College's first resident, Benard McClain of Bellefonte, of a frame . . . — — Map (db m134743) HM
The Pennsylvania State College first admitted women undergraduates in 1871, and Jane W. Hoyt served as the first preceptress and Dean of Women from 1872 until 1874. She was also an instructor in German and French. At that time, Penn State was one of . . . — — Map (db m134730) HM
Penn State's American Indian Leadership Program, established in 1970, is the oldest and most successful of its kind. It was among the first graduate fellowship programs anywhere to offer Native Americans formal opportunities to strengthen their . . . — — Map (db m134776) HM
On this site, at the Petroleum Refining Lab, chemists conducted the university's first major industry-sponsored research beginning in 1929. They improved the refining process of crude oil and pioneered in identifying its components. The lab was . . . — — Map (db m134746) HM
In 1963 faculty and students in the Electrical Engineering Dept's Ionosphere Research Lab developed a Radio Wave Cross-Modulation Facility consisting of a high-power transmitter and antenna beamed to the ionosphere. It furthered our understanding of . . . — — Map (db m135642) HM
Jordan Soil Plots were a pioneer effort to determine long-term effects of fertilizers on soil and crops. 144 plots, between today's Curtin Road and College Avenue, were established in 1882 by Professor Whitman H. Jordan. Some remained under . . . — — Map (db m134715) HM
Penn State was among the first U.S. universities to establish an academic program focusing on Labor in American society and offer Labor Studies courses for college credit. Founded in 1942 as an outreach effort to help union leaders learn their . . . — — Map (db m134779) HM
Sculptor Lyman Kipp was an artist-in-residence at Penn State's School of Visual Arts in the spring of 1980. His abstract metal sculptures are indebted to the mid-20th-century Constructivist tradition of welding or bolting together simple geographic . . . — — Map (db m135744) HM
Hanna M. Lyons is noted for her significant contributions to Penn State at a time when it was a predominantly male college. She was appointed by Governor Gifford Pinchot to the Board of Trustees in 1932, and served on the Committee on Student and . . . — — Map (db m135734) HM
Established in 1915 as one of the nation's first continuing education programs for business and industry. These programs, an outgrowth of Engineering Extension, boosted Pennsylvania's economy by tailoring instruction to thousands of clients . . . — — Map (db m134778) HM
On Jan. 21, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 8,000 in Rec Hall as part of his efforts to draw national attention to the need for voting rights reforms that would prevent discrimination against African Americans. Dr. King's . . . — — Map (db m65596) HM
Vice-President of the College (1868-91), Acting President four times, Secretary of the Board of Trustees 1868-69, member of Executive Committee 1874-92, Professor of Greek Languages and Literature. — — Map (db m135639) HM
Heeding calls for a "public playground," the State College School Board bought this natural amphitheater, known as "the sink hole," in 1914. It was foreseen as one of Pennsylvania's "most modern playgrounds," one of its "most outstanding high school . . . — — Map (db m135618) HM
Professor of Geography. Widely recognized for work in economic and Pennsylvania geography. Helped to lead his dept to world-class rank. — — Map (db m135736) HM
In the 1920s, Penn State became the first land-grant college to initiate a comprehensive mushroom research program. Led by internationally recognized scientists & supported by the mushroom industry. The program developed improved composts and . . . — — Map (db m134722) HM
Professor of Accounting and Head of department. An exceptionally popular award-winning teacher. pioneered the use of television as a teaching tool. — — Map (db m134733) HM
What's a Nittany? The word Nittany is derived from the Algonquian word Nit-A-Nee meaning "single mountain." The original inhabitants of the area used Nit-A-Nee to describe the mountain, and it likely became corrupted to Nittany by the first . . . — — Map (db m77539) HM
Built in 1857 on this site, was the first permanent building on campus initially occupied by Farm Foreman John Herman and family. It was later used as a residence by such illustrious faculty as James McKee, Whitman Jordan, and John Price Jackson. . . . — — Map (db m134759) HM
Built in 1887, the oldest campus building whose exterior has not been significantly altered. Designed in a "Richardsonian Romanesque" style, it had greenhouses attached and a formal garden in front and was long a center for Botanical Studies. — — Map (db m134756) HM
Opened in 1892, this 50,000 sq.ft. structure housed Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Mining Engineering. Designed by Fred L. Olds in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it was the architectural capstone of the campus and symbolized Penn State's . . . — — Map (db m134744) HM
Built in 1930, using limestone blocks from the first Old Main, completed on this site in 1863. The original building housed classrooms, offices, laboratories, and student and faculty living quarters. It also served as does its successor as Penn . . . — — Map (db m134754) HM
Cast in 1871 by the Boston foundry of William Blake & Co., this 1,200 lb. bronze bell hung in the original Old Main until 1929, regulating the ebb and flow of campus life. Placed in the rebuilt Old Main in 1930, it fell silent with the installation . . . — — Map (db m134753) HM
For decades Freshmen bowed to this landmark as Penn State's oldest living tradition. Planted near this site by William Waring in 1859, it fell in 1923 and has been replaced several times by descendants of the original. Legend claims the tree grew . . . — — Map (db m135742) HM
Professor of Meteorology. Renowned for atmospheric research and as a teacher. Led the way in applying computer analysis to weather forecasting. — — Map (db m134731) HM
The oldest elms in this grove were planted in the 1890s to replace the original elms and maples that lined this section of North Allen Street before it was converted to a pedestrian mall, now known as Pattee Mall. With their towering canopies and . . . — — Map (db m135740) HM
Containing 281 stones arranged in natural geologic order, this monument was erected in 1895 under supervision of professors T.C. Hopkins and M.C. Ihlseng, School of Mines, the Pennsylvania State College, to demonstrate weathering properties and . . . — — Map (db m134750) HM
The first fully functional electronic digital computer built by Penn State and among the first to be constructed on any college campus. Assembled 1953-55 by the Department of Electrical Engineering from parts donated by private industry, it proved . . . — — Map (db m135632) HM
Joseph Heller & his famous novel, "Catch-22," germinated during his faculty tenure at Penn State in the early 1950s. Pulitzer prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke wrote his first book, "Open House," during his seven years of teaching at the . . . — — Map (db m134772) HM
Buried here, headed Penn State from 1882 to 1906 and brought it back from the brink of ruin. He drafted and championed the Hatch Act of 1887 and Morrill Act of 1890, establishing federal aid to higher education, and served as first president of the . . . — — Map (db m134758) HM
Penn State has led in the study and practice of Public Speaking since John Henry Frizzell founded the Speech Department in 1935. Robert Oliver later built a nationally renowned graduate program in Rhetoric and Communication while publishing landmark . . . — — Map (db m135640) HM
Pennsylvania's first pure food laws founded on the work of Penn State chemist William Frear (1860-1922), whose pioneer analyses of foods enabled the state to enforce truth-in-labeling laws. Frear also helped organize the first National Pure Food . . . — — Map (db m134720) HM
Standardized measures of resistance to heat transfer, were first proposed in 1945 by Everett Shuman, who, as Director of Penn State's Building Research Institute, continued to promote their adoption. R Values were later widely applied to industrial . . . — — Map (db m135625) HM
The first campus building to be financed by a private gift. Bethlehem Steel Corp. founder Charles M. Schwab, a member of the university's Board of Trustees, gave $150,000 to build the Beaux-Arts structure, which was completed in 1903. — — Map (db m134755) HM
In 1969-70, leading faculty from the Colleges of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Science founded the nation's first interdisciplinary program in Science, Technology, and Society. Its integrative courses addressing critical . . . — — Map (db m134757) HM
When this school opened September 1, 1914, on Frazier (later spelled "Fraser") Street, high school students were finally in their own building. All grades previously occupied the Frazier Street School at Highland Alley. As enrollment here increased . . . — — Map (db m135620) HM
Anna Stephens became a staff physician at Penn State College in 1941. She was a member of the Centre Medical Society, the Penn State Medical Society, and the American Medical Society. Stephens also worked with the American Diabetes Association and . . . — — Map (db m135735) HM
Penn State has been a leader in broadcasting college radio since the class gift of 1912 enabled early national experiments. By 1923, WPSC students were among the first college broadcasters in the nation. Since then, students have learned the craft . . . — — Map (db m134774) HM
The Alpha Chi Chapter of Sigma Chi at Penn State University was founded on May 27, 1891, and is the third oldest fraternity at Penn State. The Chapter's first house was on South Allen Street (1891-1905).
In 1906, the construction of the . . . — — Map (db m135636) HM
Dedicated by
The Pennsylvania Beta Chapter
on the Chapter's 50th Anniversary
May 5, 1962
In tribute to
Dean Earl B. Stavely
Chapter Advisor (1916-1959)
[Additional plaque on the left side of the memorial] . . . — — Map (db m135629) HM
In 1907, the fountain at the left in the photograph was donated to the town by the Woman's Literary Club, later known as The State College Woman's Club, at a cost of $152.60. The fountain was to be of the latest design and would provide troughs . . . — — Map (db m135621) HM
In 1892 offered America's first collegiate instruction in ice cream manufacture. A program that has helped to make Penn State an international center for research in frozen confections. The original Creamery Bldg (1889) housed the nation's earliest . . . — — Map (db m77054) HM
Is one of the nation's oldest college daily newspapers. A precursor, the Free Lance, published monthly beginning in 1887, was succeeded in 1904 by the State Collegian, a weekly, and the semi-weekly Penn State Collegian appeared in 1940. An . . . — — Map (db m135641) HM
Built in 1894, the Foster Building—which later became the Gentzel Building—was State College's first apartment building. It is credited as the first property to convert from a wooden to a concrete sidewalk. The store space made . . . — — Map (db m134739) HM
Chartered as an agricultural college in 1855. Located on land donated by James Irvin, the school admitted its first class in 1859 to study the application of science to farming. Designated the state''s only land-grant institution in 1863. Penn State . . . — — Map (db m65601) HM
A movie house for more than 60 years. The State Theatre opened in 1938 with The Sisters, starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis.
"Warner Bros. announces with pride the opening of Central Pennsylvania's newest and finest theatre," read a . . . — — Map (db m134749) HM
The Battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), was commissioned in 1916 as the second ship named after the state and quickly became the flagship of the U.S. Atlantic fleet. With a displacement of 32,600 tons, a length of 608 feet, a beam of . . . — — Map (db m135651) HM
In 1965, Penn State Aerospace Engineer Barnes W. McCormick led a research team that made the first measurements of the detail of wake turbulence behind a full-scale airplane. These measurements, using aircraft flown at University Park Airport, were . . . — — Map (db m135631) HM
A war-surplus structure relocated from Lebanon, PA., in 1947 to serve as a temporary student union building. It later became Penn State's first center for minority-student social and cultural life. As the Black Cultural Center and later the Paul . . . — — Map (db m134724) HM
In 1860, just five years after the founding of the Farmers' High School and a year after the first class was offered, this tree was planted by William G. Waring, professor of horticulture.
Native to northern and central Europe, the European . . . — — Map (db m135743) HM
Was the world's largest when built in cooperation with the Navy in 1949. Designed to test properties of torpedoes, submarine hulls, propellers, & other underwater shapes by driving water through a central test section, it also had peacetime . . . — — Map (db m135638) HM
On June 4, 1990, the Big Ten Conference admitted Penn State as its eleventh member. Established in 1895 as one of the nation's first intercollegiate athletic organizations, the conference instituted a blueprint for the control and administration of . . . — — Map (db m65589) HM
Here Colonels John Patton and Samuel Miles operated the first charcoal iron furnace in the region, 1792-1809. Present stack used 1825-1858. In this era Centre County led in the making of Juniata iron. — — Map (db m52431) HM
Demonstrating that sport can be a powerful force for social change, Penn State led the way in breaking the color barrier in intercollegiate football in the south. By the players' own decision, the team refused an offer to play a segregated deep . . . — — Map (db m65590) HM
Erected in 1885 for his son John by Lemont founder Moses Thompson, this complex was a hub of trade for Centre County. Grain was exported and coal imported on the Belle- fonte, Nittany, & Lemont Railroad, later part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, . . . — — Map (db m65598) HM
Partner in Centre Furnace with James Irvin and instrumental in the selection of the site for the establishment of Penn State on furnace company land. Thompson resided here at the mansion for 49 years and hosted many trustee meetings and college . . . — — Map (db m52433) HM
With its team in a rare slump, 20,000 students wore white as a show of strength when their Nittany Lions played Purdue on October 9, 2004. The unified student section began a transformation of the game day atmosphere into a force that affected . . . — — Map (db m135653) HM
From a thunderous chant at a sporting event to a personal greeting on a street in foreign land, We are Penn State is recognized as a reflection of the pride, spirit and loyalty of past, present and future Penn Staters.
The We Are . . . — — Map (db m135650) HM
