"Trial by Fire" article on the 1975 Marsh Hall Fire · Washington County Heritage Online

Identifier: PUA_RG4_130_2005S_1
Title: "Trial by Fire" article on the 1975 Marsh Hall Fire
Description: An article by Steve Dodge on the 1975 fire that destroyed the interior of Marsh Hall on the Pacific University campus. The article includes: details about the original 1895 construction and layout of Marsh Hall; eyewitnesses accounts of the fire; descriptions of other fires on campus; student and faculty responses to the fire; the response of President Miller and the Board of Trustees; clean-up, fundraising and reconstruction efforts; and the origins of the purple elevator doors in the current building. This article was originally published in the Summer 2005 issue of Pacific University's alumni magazine.
Creator: Dodge, Steve
Date: Year(s): 2005
Date: Display: 2005
Is Part Of: Pacific Magazine
Subject: Pacific University; College campuses
Place: Forest Grove, Oregon
Source: Pacific University Archives
Copyright: English http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type: Text