Copyright (c) 2009 University of Rhode Island All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs Recent documents in Image Archives en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:05:53 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/32 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/32 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:32:36 PDT The campus bus, a large horse drawn wagon with plank seats, carried students from the train station up to Kingston Hill. The driver, William "Billy" Henry Potter began working for the school in 1896 as a beekeeper before becoming the bus driver. While transporting new students from the train station to the campus, Billy often regaled his young charges about the day he "whipped his horses into a lather" to get to the scene after hearing a "lad shout that the college was burning down." Upon arriving at the burning College Hall, Billy learned that his brother, who was a janitor in College Hall, had been the last man out of the building. Billy retired in 1949 after 53 years of service to the College. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/31 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/31 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:11:41 PDT In rebuilding College Hall, soon to be renamed Davis Hall, the remaining portion of the west façade was incorporated into the new building. Note the complex wooden scaffolding, and the block and tackle pulley system used to position the granite blocks in place. The new building was completed by the fall of 1896. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/30 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/30 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:15:25 PDT Workmen had to use horse drawn carts and wagons to clear the rubble of College Hall before construction could begin on Davis Hall. In the background to the left stands the Watson farmhouse, which was converted to a girl's dormitory that same year (1895). To the right is Taft Hall, and the center area where the wooden out-buildings appear is now the site of the University Library. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/29 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/29 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:49:05 PDT On Sunday, January 27, 1895, College Hall caught on fire. Fanned by 40 miles an hour winds, the flames consumed the building in forty-five minutes. All that remained after the fire was the front façade and parts of the side walls of the Hall. In this photograph the right side wall of the building is propped up by wooden planks. College Hall was rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall in honor of Governor John W. Davis. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/28 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/28 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:23:48 PDT Constructed in 1958-59 on the site of the old South Hall, the Carlotti Administration building serves the varied needs of the University. NAMED IN HONOR OF ? http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/27 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/27 Tue, 30 May 2006 12:51:08 PDT South Hall was built in 1890, in the Victorian wood frame style, as a boarding house for students. Condemned as living space in the 1940's, the English department occupied the building until it was finally torn down in the summer of 1958. The Carlotti Adminstration building now stands on the site. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/26 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/26 Tue, 30 May 2006 11:59:06 PDT This photogragh, taken in 1894, show from left to right Taft Hall, which was sometimes referred to as the Chemical Laboratory in the School's annual reports, College Hall as it looked before the fire of 1895, and the Boarding Hall or South Hall. South Hall was torn down in 1958. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/25 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/25 Tue, 30 May 2006 09:05:14 PDT Interior view of the library in College Hall before it was destroyed by fire in 1895. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/24 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/24 Tue, 30 May 2006 08:49:01 PDT Ties between the poultry research of the Station and the needs of the School prompted the College to offer the first summer-school "special course," in poultry husbandry. The rigorous 4-week offering ran for 12 hours a day, beginning at 6 a.m., and included classes in zoology, anatomy, physiology, plus practical instruction in carpentry, food chemistry, caponizing, and breeding. It was the first practical summertime education program of its kind in the country. The poultry course was later expanded into a four-year curriculum. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/23 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/photographs/23 Tue, 30 May 2006 07:33:27 PDT Taken about 1897, this photograph shows the use of a steam powered tractor supplying the energy needs of the Agricultural Laboratory.