East Hall Fire, 1966, photo 3

This image shows a fire truck from the Boone Fire Department preparing to battle a fire in East Hall in October 1966. Firefighters standing in front of Lovill Hall, built 1915, can be seen holding a firehose which is spraying water onto the ground. 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

Dormitories

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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Photographs

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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). Lovill Home (1915)

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

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