Lyndon State College Aerial Real Photo Color Postcard - Circa 1970 - from the David & Beth Kanell Collection

Publication

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Vail Museum

Aerial Color Postcard showing the Lyndon State College campus, Lyndon Center, VT: Clockwise, from left: Stonehenge Dorm Complex, Stevens Dining Hall, Science-Theatre-Gym complex (under construction), the Aldrich House (partially obscured by trees - served as the Infirmary during this period), President's House (atop the hill), the original 1950s contractor and student built Gym, Vail Mansion, Baseball Field, Wheelock Dorm, the original Samuel Read Hall Library (Harvey Academic Center in 2024).
Aerial Color Postcard showing the Lyndon State College campus, Lyndon Center, VT

Clockwise, from left: Stonehenge Dorm Complex, Stevens Dining Hall, Science-Theatre-Gym complex (under construction), the Aldrich House (partially obscured by trees - served as the Infirmary during this period), President's House (atop the hill), the original 1950s contractor and student built Gym, Vail Mansion, Baseball Field, Wheelock Dorm, the original Samuel Read Hall Library (Harvey Academic Center in 2024).

Name/Title

Lyndon State College Aerial Real Photo Color Postcard - Circa 1970 - from the David & Beth Kanell Collection

Entry/Object ID

2021.010.1

Description

This was how the Lyndon State College campus looked during the very late 1960s into 1970. LSC was completing the largest capital expansion in its history.

Context

Things of particular interest in this aerial: The lower road into Wheelock and Stonehenge dorms had not yet been built. The contractor and student-built gym was still in use (large, barn-like building at center with the green roof - it would be dismantled during the next year). Stannard Gymnasium, Alexander Twilight Theatre and the Fairbanks Science wing are under construction and nearly done. Stevens Dining Hall still has its original footprint. It was about to undergo an expansion of the dining area that would double its seating capacity. Vail Mansion with its two signature towers was still the centerpiece of the LSC campus. Vail would be deemed structurally deficient in 1973. It was demolished in the fall of 1974, despite efforts to preserve it. A new, brick building called the T.N. Vail Center would be constructed during 1975 and 1976, a portion of it built roughly on the same footprint as Vail Mansion. The T.N. Vail Center would open in the fall of 1976.

Cataloged By

Michael Thurston

Provenance

Provenance Detail

David & Beth Kanell