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Wright Laboratory of Physics

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The Physics Laboratory, renamed the Wilbur and Orville Wright Laboratory of Physics in 1948, was constructed during the Second World War of concrete with an exterior of Indiana Limestone. The reinforced concrete was a wartime building material in…

Mudd Learning Center

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The Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, named to memorialize the distinguished physician and philanthropist, was completed in 1974. Designed by Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde of New York, the Center is a five-story, 200,000 square-foot limestone structure…

Theological Quadrangle (Bosworth Hall, Asia House, Fairchild Chapel)

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The quadrangle complex, designed by Cass Gilbert and his son, and opened in 1931, was built for the College's Graduate School of Theology, closed in 1965. The complex, comprising Bosworth Hall, Shipherd Hall, and Fairchild Chapel, was designed to…