East Hall Fire, 1966, photo 4

This image shows East Hall, built 1952, during a fire in October 1966. Students can be seen standing front of of the building and a fire truck from the Boone Fire Department can be seen on the western side of the building. A policeman can be seen standing in the foreground smoking a cigarette. The policemen is Mr. Marvin Russell, a member of the ASU security force. The fire started in the Sanitary Engineers Department (trash room) and the damage was confined to the maintenance entrance of the building. East served as a women's dormitory and was was designed to hold 204 women, with two students per room, but due to overcrowding was later known to hold three to a room.

Buildings

Student Housing

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Appalachian State University

General Picture File, 2004.040, Box 3, East Hall, C14.1.6.3.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

1966-10

News Bureau

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1960s

Appalachian State Teachers College (N.C.). Office of Housing and Residence Life. Boone Fire Department (Boone, N.C.)

East Residence Hall (1952)

Series 1 -- Campus and Buildings. Series 2 -- Events

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