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Smith House
Built in 1897 as faculty house. Used as administrative offices
in 1960s. Student dormitory 1972-1992. Remodeled as offices for College Relations in 1992.
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Student Health Center
Built in 1880s. Kappa Alpha chapter house, 1922-1927.
Acquired by College in 1946 and remodeled as student health center in 1991-92.
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President's House
The President’s House was constructed for the first president of Davidson College, President Robert Hall Morrison.
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Richardson Hall
The building will be
composed of sixty-two, two man rooms with a large lounge at the main entrance
to the first floor.
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Rusk Eating House
In 1977, the Rusk Eating House, the first female eating house was organized in the spring to open the following fall semester. The first all-female house on Patterson Court, Rusk Eating House helped pave the way for the modern court.
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Sloan Music Center
Built as library in 1941. Dedicated May 1, 1942. West wing
added in 1958. Remodeled as College Union in 1975. Remodeled in 2002 as the Sloan
Music Center.
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Sentelle Hall
As has been stated, the new dormitories will be modern in
every respect.
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Patterson Court
First 12 houses constructed in 1958. Some buildings moved in
1981. Turner House constructed 1999.
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West Hall
Built in 2000 on the site of Lingle Manor.
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Watts Hall
Of great interest to the students, perhaps, is the replacing of
Watts Dormitory by a new and complete building, with accommodations for 100
students, twice as many as were provided by the dormitory that was destroyed
on February 25th.
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Wall Academic Center
Built in 2015-2016. New wings scheduled to open in Fall 2016. Renovations to Martin Chemical to be completed in 2017.
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Visual Arts Center
The Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center (VAC) is located at the corner of Griffith Street and Main Street.
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Lacy, Drury
Reverend Drury Lacy was fifty-three years old when he was elected president of Davidson College in 1855.
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Vail Commons – History
Davidson College’s largest dining facility
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Mike Goode
Before coming back to work at Davidson in 1992 I worked in the Student Activities Office at Oregon State and with the Carolina Union Activities Board in Chapel Hill, N.C. At Davidson, I have worked in the operations side of the college union and a long stint with Davidson Outdoors before stepping into my current role.
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Scripts N' Pranks
Scripts N' Pranks was a literary humor publication that began production after the demise of the yowl. It ran for almost 30 years, releasing its last issue in 1965.
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Women’s Basketball Pictures
Women’s Basketball Pictures
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X-Rays
In January 1896, Dr. Henry Louis Smith, a physics professor at Davidson Colllege, read about Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen’s discovery of x-rays in an associated press bulletin.
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YMCA
The YMCA was first listed as a Student Organization in 1878. From 1878 to 1945, the student organization saw a number of transformations, including the construction of their own building, Morrison Hall, as the YMCA grew into one of the most prominent groups on campus.
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Yowl
Created in 1930, the year after the demise of The Chameleon (the previous, student-run, literary magazine), the first issue of The Yowl appeared in November and cost only thirty-five cents per issue.
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Russian Department
Russian classes were first offered at Davidson in 1989 with classes in language, culture, and literature while Russian was offered as a self-instructional language since 1984.
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Residence Life
Today, students lounge around their rooms enjoying the luxuries of air conditioning, refrigerators, microwaves, TVs, and petit bathrooms tucked away in the corner of each room.
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Quips and Cranks
But what is an annual, some may ask? Briefly, it is a photographic and historical summary of college life. It contains histories of the several classes, clubs and Greek letter societies, a short historical sketch of the college, and various other items of solid and permanent interest interspersed with light sketches and with poems, grave and gay.
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Preyer Infirmary
With the opening of Davidson’s new $25,000 Infirmary the first
step toward the building of the ideal Davidson campus has been completed.
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Philosophy Department
In 1945, a faculty committee recommended the creation of a distinct Chair of Philosophy with a professor who had been fully trained. The college hired Dr. George Abernathy in 1946, and he was the only professor in the department until 1961.