campus and buildings, pre-1900

Affiliated Items

Drawing of a College hall, circa 1842

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Artist's conception of a College hall set against a hill of trees with a road and stairs leading to the building. External view of a three-storey structure with four pillars. Accompanying note indicates this is First College Hall, and the drawing is similar but probably not the structure opened in 1844. Similar etchings were made by a Boston company.
Accession Number: APC388
Type: photograph

Acadia farm, circa 1900

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: At least four people, farm equipment and animals, and a house with out buildings set in a field against a ridge of trees. Likely the Acadia farm, said to be located near the Robie Roscoe Services Building (which was built much later). Written in pencil on reverse: "X Mr. William Oliver" [underlined] and "These were left at the parsonage" [underlined]
Accession Number: APC063
Type: photograph

Grand Pre Seminary, circa 1862

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view from the street. Two-and-a-half-storey wooden structure with attic and basement and one entrance. Thirteen women and girls standing outside and at least four women in windows. Property is fenced. Pile of stones or bricks in the street. Two other buildings partially visible. The first Seminary building was located in the former Chase School on Main Street, Wolfville, in 1861 under…
Accession Number: APC384
Type: photograph

Chipman Hall, circa 1877

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view from the current University Avenue looking north west. Four-storey wooden structure with a French roof and a widow's walk and two, visible entrances. Property is fenced. Twelve, unidentified men posing in the foreground. Landscape of west Wolfville visible in the background. Photograph possibly taken by William Chase when he came to photograph the College Hall ruins. If so, the…
Accession Number: APC378
Type: photograph

Chipman Hall, circa 1897

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Looking westward over Wolfville. Chipman Hall, without a widow's walk, is prominent among the trees in the foreground. In the background are structures and orchards of west Wolfville. Image likely taken from an upper floor or roof of the Acadia Ladies' Seminary or (Second) College Hall.
Accession Number: APC398
Type: photograph

Academy Residence, circa 1887

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view from Main Street looking north. Three-storey wooden structure with out buildings and two, visible entrances. Property is fenced. Photograph may have been taken by William Chase when he came to take images of the College Hall ruins.
Accession Number: APC379
Type: photograph

Ruins of Acadia College, 1877

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Twenty, unidentified men, posing on the rubble of (First) College Hall. The remains of brick and stone walls are easily visible. Fences, houses, a farm, and the church and parsonage on Prospect Street in the background. Camera is facing east. Written in ink on reverse: "Ruins of Acadia College, burned Dec. 2nd 1877".
Accession Number: APC410
Creator: Chase, W.
Type: photograph

Academy Boarding House, circa 1860

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view of the building, located near the Emmerson Memorial Library (built much later). Two-and-a-half-storey wooden structure with basement and two partially visible out buildings and three, visible entrances. Twenty-two, unidentified men posing with the building. This is the second campus structure built.
Accession Number: APC382
Type: photograph

College Hall, circa 1880

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view of the northern face of (Second) College Hall. Two storey, wooden structure with attic and three, visible entrances. Twenty-three men standing along the outside of the building. The grounds do not appear to be landscaped, indicating that the image was taken shortly after construction. No canon are in place at the front of the building. Acadia Ladies' Seminary is partly visible.
Accession Number: APC409
Creator: Ferguson, D.C.
Type: photograph

Chipman Hall, circa 1890

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view from University Avenue looking west. Four-storey wooden structure with a widow's walk and two entrances. Twenty-four unidentified men, sitting and standing, pose in the foreground. Property is fenced. Another building is partially visible in the background.
Accession Number: APC421
Creator: Chase, W.
Type: photograph

Acadia Seminary, circa 1890

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view of the west facing sides of the original four-storey building with the three-storey extension. A horse and buggy is parked outside the main building entrance. Two flagpoles are visible; one of which is flying a flag.
Accession Number: APC385
Type: photograph

Group photo next to College Hall ruins, 1877

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Large group of men and a few women, sitting and standing in this posed print. Ruins of (First) College Hall, a thicket of trees, and a flag pole in the background. Camera is facing north. Written in ink on matte: "Meeting of Governors, Professors, students + friends the morning after Old Acadia was burned. They were gathered directly in front of where the old building stood the trees behind…
Accession Number: APC411
Creator: Chase, W.
Type: photograph

College Hall, circa 1895

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view of the north face and east corner of (Second) College Hall and surrounding grounds. Two storey wooden structure with attic and three visible entrances. No canon are visible on the grounds, indicating this image dates before 1900.
Accession Number: APC412
Type: photograph

College Hall, circa 1890

Collection: Acadia Photograph Collection. Campus and Buildings
Description: Exterior view of the north face and east corner of (Second) College Hall and surrounding grounds. Two storey wooden structure with attic and three visible entrances. The flag pole is clearly visible, providing a clue for the location of (First) College Hall, and the widow's walk of Chipman Hall is visible.
Accession Number: APC414
Type: photograph