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Castle On The Hill & Science Hall
This old photo came from a friend of mine back in Alva, OK. We think it was taken sometime between 1909-1917, because the only buildings showing in this stretched out old photograph on the right, are the Science Hall, Castle on the Hill and an old smokestack of some sort.
We know that Northwestern Normal School's Castle on the Hill was built before statehood (1907) in 1897. The next building to built at the normal school was the Science Hall, which was finished by 1909.
In 1918 the President's House had been built. The Wyatt Gymnasium was added onto the Normal School campus in 1919. The Herold hall which stood between the Science building and the Castle on the Hill was constructed in 1923.
Thanks to Lovina Clark for sharing this old Northwestern Normal School photo with us. You can read more about the history of Alva's Normal School at Northwestern Normal School.
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I found where a Frank Ingels, sculpture and graduate of Northwestern Normal School in 1915, donated the Lincoln monument to Northwestern. Did this occur the year he graduated in 1915? Did he scupture it himself? Does anyone have any more information on Frank Ingels? Thanks for helping us preserve a piece of this northwest Oklahoma past! ~NW Okie 2007-01-15 13:51:30I don't know the year of the photo either, but many folks have copies of it. The smoke stack was connected to the boiler room, which still sits immediately south of the Student Center (the former Wyatt Gym) and is still in use. After an earthquake a few years ago, centered near Capron, the university's swimming pool and the smokestack were both damaged. The stack was razed as a preventive measure; the pool was abandoned and is no longer in use (I believe the pool area will be re-designed with the coming renovation of the Physical Education facility). ~Rodney Murrow 2007-01-13 22:41:45
I should also add that Abe Lincoln still sits in this same location. By determining the year that Abe came to reside on campus, in addition to the construction of the old Science Building, one could perhaps narrow down the date of the photograph. ~Rodney Murrow 2007-01-13 22:47:40
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