SLU Photographs

The two story sandstone Herring Library was opened in 1871 and was the second structure built on campus.

Students making their way to Herring-Cole in the 1950s, when it was still in use as the main campus library. Today, Herring-Cole is often used for lectures, performances, exhibits and as a reading area.

Canton Fire Department volunteers were called the night of December 11, 1951 to a blaze at Fisher Hall. No one was hurt but the fire destroyed the building, which was razed a few months later. Less than three years later, Atwood Hall was completed and became the new home to the University's Universalist Theological Seminary.

Opened in 1883 and named to honor the first President of SLU's Universalist Seminary, Fisher Hall became the third building on the University campus. It served as the home of the Theological School until its destruction by fire in December 1951. The building stood roughly where the Torrey Wing of the Owen D. Young Library is today.

Only two of the Chapel's current stained glass windows are original to the building. The rest, including this one (which is truly unique in that it depicts a number of sports played at SLU), were installed between 1972 and 1982 by alumni and friends of the University.

The interior of Gunnison Memorial Chapel prior to the installation of it's unique stained glass windows. The chapel has been the venue for many commencements, academic ceremonies, concerts, services and innumerable other events since its dedication in 1926, and its distinctive bells, a gift of alumnus Irving Bachellor, have rung out daily at 5:00pm during the college year for many decades.

After a suspicious fire destroyed the "old wooden" gymnasium on campus construction quickly began on a stately Gothic-style chapel on the site of the old gym. Construction of Gunnison Memorial Chapel, named in honor of Almon Gunnison, President of the University from 1899 to 1914, was begun in 1925.

Piskor Hall now houses the departments of history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology.

In the 1960s, a new campus for the State Agricultural and Technical College was built across town and Canton ATC was born. Soon afterward, the ATI buildings were converted to use by St. Lawrence University. In 1983, Cook Hall was rededicated as Piskor Hall, in honor of SLU's President from 1969-81.