Schuylkill Residence Hall
Schuylkill Residence Hall is a four-story structure built in 1964 and houses 250 men and women. It includes recreation and lounge facilities, study rooms, laundry, kitchen, a guest suite and an apartment for the graduate assistant. There are two computer network, one telephone and one cable television connections per room.
The building is non-smoking and there are smoke detectors and sprinklers in each room. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk. The building name honors the residents of Schuylkill County.
Old Science Hall
Commonly called "Old Science" to distinguish it from Hartline Science Center, it houses offices of the departments of art, history, languages and cultures and has several classrooms and studios.
Bloomsburg's second oldest campus building was built in 1906 for $100,000; renovation in 1988-89 cost was $3.3 million. Originally called "Science Hall," it became known as Old Science Hall in the 1960s.
Carver Hall
Carver Hall, built in 1867, is the oldest building on campus. In addition to the Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium, Carver houses the office of the president, and provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Originally name Institute Hall, the building was renamed in 1927 to honor Henry Carver, first principal of the school that eventually became Bloomsburg University. Carver Hall sits atop College Hill and looks down over the Town of Bloomsburg. Over the years, alterations have changed the building. Most significant was replacement of the original cupola in 1900 with the current one. In 1939 a north wing and fire tower were added.
Scranton Commons
William W. Scranton Commons, completed in 1970 and renovated in 1999-2000, is an air-conditioned dining facility with 1,175 seats and a serving capacity of 3,000 persons. A pizza shop and convenience store are located in the lobbies of the building. Additions to the facility were completed in 1992.
A recent renovation of the Scranton Commons ended any resemblance to the old fashioned "cafeteria" -- replaced by an ambiance more like that of a restaurant that serves cuisine from all over the world.
Scranton Commons is named for William W. Scranton, governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967.
Kehr Union
Marguerite W. Kehr Union is the hub of student activity at Bloomsburg University. In addition to housing the offices of Student Life, the Community Government Association, the student newspaper and yearbook, the facility includes meeting rooms that can accommodate from ten to hundreds of persons, a ballroom, 200-seat Husky Lounge cafeteria and snack bar, multicultural center, games room, student health center and a computer lab.
The building is owned and operated by students of the university through the Community Government Association. The building honors Dr. Marguerite W. Kehr, Dean of Women at Bloomsburg State College for 25 years, who took a keen interest in student affairs.
Montour Residence Hall
Montour Residence Hall, a four-story structure built in 1964, houses 250 students. It includes recreation and lounge facilities, study rooms, a guest suite and an apartment for the area coordinator.
The non-smoking building honors the residents of Montour County and includes a laundry, kitchen, and rec room. All rooms have two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
Lycoming Residence Hall
Lycoming Residence Hall opened in the fall of 1976. It houses 250 men and women and has lounges, study rooms, recreation areas, special projects facilities and an apartment for the area coordinator.
The non-smoking building honors the residents of Lycoming County and includes a laundry, kitchen, cyberlounge, computer lab, study room and rec room. All rooms have two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers. Maximum rectangular carpet size: 15' x 12'. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
Elwell Residence Hall
Elwell Residence Hall, completed in 1968, is a nine-story facility that can houses 609 men and women. It has recreation rooms and lounges, laundry, kitchen on every floor, rec room, a guest suite, study rooms and apartments for the staff. The building also houses a number of university offices on the ground floor
The non-smoking building, named for three generations of the Elwell family prominent in BU history, features two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers.Maximum rectangular carpet size: 14' x 7'. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
University Store, University Police
Completed in 1956, the university store was originally used as the college commons, and from 1970 to 1973 as a temporary student union. The building was remodeled in 1999. The facility serves as the campus store where students may purchase textbooks, sundry supplies and clothing. The building also houses the office of university police and the campus post office. The facility is owned by the Community Government Association.
Luzerne Residence Hall
Luzerne Residence Hall, a four-story residence hall completed in 1967, accommodates 300 men and women. It has a lounge and recreation area and apartments for the staff. The non-smoking building, which honors residents of Luzerne County, has a designated quiet study hall, laundry, cyber lounge, study room on every floor, kitchen, TV lounges and a rec room.
All rooms have two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers. Maximum rectangular carpet size: 13' x 12'. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
Northumberland Residence Hall
Northumberland Residence Hall, completed in 1960, accommodates 200 men and women. It includes lounge and recreation areas a kitchen, laundry, study rooms and apartments for residence hall staff. All rooms in the non-smoking building, which honors residents of Northumberland County, have two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers. Built-in closets, bunkable beds. Maximum rectangular carpet size: 13' x 12'. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
Columbia Residence Hall
Columbia Residence Hall, completed in 1970, is a nine-story structure that houses 400 women. It contains lounges, study rooms, recreation areas, a special projects room, kitchens, cyberlounge, a guest suite and an apartment for the area coordinator. All rooms in the non-smoking building, which honors residents of Columbia County, have two computer network connections, a telephone connection, cable television, and smoke detectors and sprinklers. Closet, desks built in. Maximum retangular carpet size: 15' x 9'. All visitors must check in at a 24-hour front desk.
Haas Center for the Arts - Mitrani Hall
Completed in 1967, Haas Center for the Arts houses the 1,900 seat Mitrani Hall. The building also includes classrooms; faculty offices for music and theater; facilities for music, debating and drama groups, and Haas Art Gallery. The Department of Music and theater costume facilities are located in the rear wing.
The building honors Dr. Francis B. Haas, who served as president from 1927 to 1939 and as state superintendent until 1956. The auditorium honors philanthropists Marco and Louise Mitrani, 1920s immigrants to this country who supported many community and university efforts.
Navy Hall
Navy Hall houses the Department of Exceptionality Programs, the Reading Center and a number of classrooms and offices.
Navy Hall was constructed in 1939 as a campus laboratory school to provide monitored student teaching at the at junior and senior high school levels. During World War II, it was converted for use of candidates in the Navy V-12 Officer Training Program and was named to honor military servicemen who studied here during the war.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Benjamin Franklin Hall, completed in 1930, is now used primarily for technology support services and the College of Science and Technology. "Ben Franklin" was originally used as a training school for kindergarten through sixth grade pupils. Elementary education majors were student teachers under the tutelage of experienced grade school teachers on the Bloomsburg State Teachers College faculty.
It is one of two buildings named for an individual without an institutional or Town of Bloomsburg connection (Scranton Commons being the other).
Bakeless Center for the Humanities
Bakeless Center for the Humanities, built in 1970, houses the departments of English, economics, philosophy, and political science and general-purpose classrooms as well as a writing lab. The building honors the Oscar H. Bakeless family who were faculty members and benefactors of the university
Warren Student Services Center
Built in 1966 as the original Harvey Andruss Library, the building was renovated in 2000 to become a Student Services Center, gathering a variety of services from different locations on campus into a single, centrally-located facility.
The center includes the offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar's Office, Developmental Instruction, Academic Internships, International Education, ROTC, SOLVE, Act 101/EOP, Career Development, and other support services, plus the popular Roongo's snack bar and a gourmet coffee shop. The building honors benefactor Dr. Robert Warren.
Hartline Science Center
Hartline Science Center, completed in 1968 and expanded in 2004-05, is an instructional building with modern classrooms, the Kimber C. Kuster Lecture Hall, seminar rooms, laboratories, faculty office and an exhibit area. It houses the departments of Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Science, Biological and Allied Health Sciences and Geography and Geosciences.
The building is named for former faculty members Dr. Daniel S. Hartline and Harriet (Hallie) Keffer Hartline and their son, H. Keffer Hartline, who won the 1967 Nobel Prize for medicine. Kimber Kuster, '13, became chair of the biology department upon Hartline's retirement.
Sutliff Hall
Completed in 1960, Sutliff Hall contains classrooms and faculty offices for the College of Business and the departments of Accounting, Finance and Legal Studies, Business Education and Business Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Management and Marketing.
The building honors William Boyd Sutliff, who served his alma mater from 1891 to 1937. A professor of mathematics and faculty athletic manager for many years, Sutliff became Bloomsburg's first dean of instruction in 1921 and remained so until his retirement in 1937. Sutliff wrote the university's Alma Mater.
Centennial Hall
Centennial Hall, formerly Centennial Gymnasium, was built in 1939 and named to commemorate the first century of Bloomsburg's history.
A recent renovation to the building expanded the size of the building by 70,000 square feet. It the School of Graduate Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the university's speech-language and hearing clinic and the departments of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Anthropology, Exercise Science, a number of seminar rooms and computer classrooms; five large classrooms; and a 250-seat, theater-style lecture hall.
Andruss Library
The Harvey A. Andruss Library provides access to more than 400,000 volumes and government documents, 2 million microforms, 1,700 current periodicals and 32 newspapers, and online bibliographic and full-text databases. The technologically designed building provides more than 900 study spaces with more than 200 having computer access to the library's and worldwide information resources. There are 22 group study rooms, word processing rooms, photocopying rooms, and a graduate student study, archives and a small cafeteria.
The building honors Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, who served as BU's president from 1939 to 1969.
Waller Administration Building
Waller Administration Building, completed in 1972, contains offices for Administration and Finance, billing, telecommunications, budget and administrative services; purchasing; university communication; human resources; planning, institutional research and information management. There are conference rooms and a central receiving area for university supplies and equipment.
The building is named for David J. Waller Jr., son of the founder of what is now BU in 1839, was an alum, and served as principal for 27 years, the second longest in Bloomsburg's history. He also served as principal of what is now Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Buckalew Place
Buckalew Place, originally the home of Charles R. Buckalew, a U.S. Senator from 1863 to 1869 and a trustee of the Normal School, was acquired by the commonwealth for use as the president's home in 1926.
Buckalew's heirs sold the house with 14 acres to the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School for $6,000 in 1903. In 1916 the state took over complete ownership of the school and, with it, Buckalew Place. The historic residence was recently restored and brought up to state code.
Buckingham Maintenance Center
Boyd F. Buckingham Campus Maintenance Center houses offices, storage areas, vehicles and workshops. The building was named for Boyd F. Buckingham in 1986.
Boyd F. Buckingham, a 1943 graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers College, returned to his alma mater in 1953. He served as director of public relations from 1970 to 1974 and vice president for administration from 1974 to 1981. During those years he was instrumental in campus development that constituted the greatest expansion in the university's history.
Mitchell House
Mitchell House, located between Buckingham Maintenance Center and Fenstemaker Alumni House, has several offices used by University Advancement staff.
Fenstemaker Alumni House
Purchased by the Bloomsburg University Alumni Association in 1985 from the estate of Dorothy Dillon (Class of 1924), Fenstemaker Alumni House includes nearly four acres of land. In 1986, the Alumni House was named to honor Howard F. Fenstemaker (Class of 1912), a who taught French, Latin, Spanish and German as well as history for 37 years. He was also director of both the band and orchestra, editor of the Alumni Quarterly for 45 years and president of the alumni association for a decade.
The building houses staff of the Bloomsburg University Foundation and the development office. The Veterans Memorial Garden on the front lawn was dedicated in 1989 to honor all Bloomsburg graduates and former students who served in the armed forces since 1839.
Development Center
The Development Center, located on Lightstreet Road just east of the lower campus, is the headquarter of the Bloomsburg University Foundation, Inc., and the Office of Development. The professional staff is responsible for nearly all of philanthropic support for Bloomsburg University, including the annual fund, capital campaigns, and the athletic scholarship fund.
Student Recreation Center
The 56,000 square foot Student Recreation Center, entirely funded by university students through a special recreation fee, opened in February, 1995 and will soon double in size.
Facilities:
3000 sq. ft. fitness room with cardiovascular and a complete circuit of strength training equipment; 3000 sq. ft. free-weight room with, squat rack, Smith machine, dead-pft area, cable cross, etc.; four basketball courts also be used for volleyball and tennis surrounded by a 1/8 mile track and a 55-foot traverse rock climbing wall; Multi-Purpose Room for the many aerobics classes, women's self defense and club sport activities; four glass backed racquetball courts adaptable for wallyball; modern locker rooms, showers, changing areas.
Student Recreation Center
The 56,000 square foot Student Recreation Center, entirely funded by university students through a special recreation fee, opened in February, 1995 and will soon double in size.
Facilities:
3000 sq. ft. fitness room with cardiovascular and a complete circuit of strength training equipment; 3000 sq. ft. free-weight room with, squat rack, Smith machine, dead-pft area, cable cross, etc.; four basketball courts also be used for volleyball and tennis surrounded by a 1/8 mile track and a 55-foot traverse rock climbing wall; Multi-Purpose Room for the many aerobics classes, women's self defense and club sport activities; four glass backed racquetball courts adaptable for wallyball; modern locker rooms, showers, changing areas.
Student Recreation Center
The 56,000 square foot Student Recreation Center, entirely funded by university students through a special recreation fee, opened in February, 1995 and will soon double in size.
Facilities:
3000 sq. ft. fitness room with cardiovascular and a complete circuit of strength training equipment; 3000 sq. ft. free-weight room with, squat rack, Smith machine, dead-pft area, cable cross, etc.; four basketball courts also be used for volleyball and tennis surrounded by a 1/8 mile track and a 55-foot traverse rock climbing wall; Multi-Purpose Room for the many aerobics classes, women's self defense and club sport activities; four glass backed racquetball courts adaptable for wallyball; modern locker rooms, showers, changing areas.
Student Recreation Center
The 56,000 square foot Student Recreation Center, entirely funded by university students through a special recreation fee, opened in February, 1995 and will soon double in size.
Facilities:
3000 sq. ft. fitness room with cardiovascular and a complete circuit of strength training equipment; 3000 sq. ft. free-weight room with, squat rack, Smith machine, dead-pft area, cable cross, etc.; four basketball courts also be used for volleyball and tennis surrounded by a 1/8 mile track and a 55-foot traverse rock climbing wall; Multi-Purpose Room for the many aerobics classes, women's self defense and club sport activities; four glass backed racquetball courts adaptable for wallyball; modern locker rooms, showers, changing areas.
Simon Hall
Built originally as a laundry building and later serving as general space for classrooms, Walter Simon Hall was dedicated in 1983 to the art professor who served from 1971 to 1977. It houses ceramics and sculpture studios for the Department of Art.
Simon was an artist and an art historian who also served as the first director of the Educational Opportunity Program, now department of developmental instruction. Simon Hall now houses the Quest office as well as some art department offices and classrooms.
McCormick Center for Human Services
James H. McCormick Center for Human Services is the hub of the College of Professional Studies, including early childhood and elementary education, educational studies and secondary education and nursing.
MCHS also houses communication studies, mathematics, computer science and statistics, mass communications, instructional technology, psychology, sociology and social welfare, in addition to audio visual resources, radio and television services, the Institute for Interactive Technology. The building honors James H. McCormick, president of Bloomsburg State College from 1973 to 1983 and first chancellor of the State System of Higher Education.