{"id":3468,"date":"2011-10-11T01:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:47:49","slug":"porter-hall-mount-holyoke-college-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"Porter Hall, Mount Holyoke College (1897)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Porter.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Porter Hall\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Porter.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Porter-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/courses\/rschwart\/hatlas\/fires\/seminary\/index.htm\">A fire<\/a> destroyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~dalbino\/seminary.html\">original seminary building<\/a> of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.gendisasters.com\/massachusetts\/973\/south-hadley%2C-ma-mount-holyoke-college-main-building-fire%2C-sept-1896\">in 1896<\/a>.  One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~dalbino\/porter.html\">first new structures<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/232827\/porter-hall-mount-holyoke-college-south-hadley-massachusetts\/\">be built<\/a> after the fire was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/facilities\/porter.html\">Porter Hall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/lits\/library\/arch\/map\/porter.htm\">a residence hall<\/a> completed in 1897.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encore-editions.com\/porter-hall-mount-holyoke-college-south-hadley-mass\">Porter Hall<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/mtholyoke.cdmhost.com\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/p1030coll8&#038;CISOPTR=3667&#038;CISOBOX=1&#038;REC=3\">designed<\/a> by C. Putnam Karr and was named for Deacon Porter, who was in charge of buildings on the College&#8217;s Board of Trustees and was a friend and adviser to the College&#8217;s founder <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dv9OAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PR3#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Mary Lyon<\/a>.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilder.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wilder Hall\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilder.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Wilder-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/lits\/library\/arch\/map\/wilder.htm\">Tudor-style residence hall<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/facilities\/wilder.html\">Wilder Hall<\/a> (<em>above<\/em>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~dalbino\/wilder.html\">built in 1899<\/a> as a gift from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildercenter.com\/history\/charles-t-wilder\/\">Charles T. Wilder<\/a> of Wellesley Hills in memory of his wife Mary Ware Wilder, a member of the class of 1852.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire destroyed the original seminary building of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley in 1896. One of the first new structures to be built after the fire was Porter Hall, a residence hall completed in 1897. Porter Hall was designed by C. Putnam Karr and was named for Deacon Porter, who was in charge of buildings on the College&#8217;s Board of Trustees and was a friend and adviser to the College&#8217;s founder Mary Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,91,114],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collegiate","category-south-hadley","category-tudor-revival","tag-mount-holyoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}