Ramer Hall through Ruef Hall

RAMER HALL

Location: West of March Field, next to Farber Hall

Date: 1991

Architect: Spillman Farmer Shoemaker Pell & Whildin of Bethlehem

Builder: Alvin H. Butz Inc., Allentown

Ramer Hall is a student residence hall. It is named for trustee Lawrence J. Ramer '50 and his wife, Ina Lee Brown Ramer, who made possible its construction.


REFECTORY (no longer standing)

Location: In the area bounded by Van Wickle, Kirby Hall and Phi Delta Theta

Date Built: 1834

Originally a shop for the mechanical part of the manual training program during the college's first decade, it was built by Lafayette students under the supervision of President George Junkin. It became the refectory when manual labor was dropped in 1839. It was razed in 1872.


RUEF HALL

Location: South of the west wing of South Hall, east of Easton Hall

Date Built: 1965-66

Architect: Harbeson Hough Livingston & Larson, of Philadelphia

Builder: Turner Construction Co., Philadelphia

Ruef Hall was built as a student residence, and named for John W. Ruef '01.


Text from "Historical Survey of the Buildings of Lafayette College." Compiled by Pamela S. Narbeth, College Archives. Easton, PA: Friends of Skillman Library, 1991. Images from the Lafayette College Archives.

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