Ferry Lounge

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Identifier 000746
Source 000746.tiff
Title Ferry Lounge
Subject Church schools--Utah--Salt Lake City; Presbyterian Church--Utah -- Salt Lake City; Presbyterians--Utah--Salt Lake City; Ferry Hall (Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah); Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah); Sugar House (Salt Lake City, Utah); Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Further Information Mounted on sturdy paper. Photo is in excellent condition. A border runs around the image. On the back, "Ferry Lounge" is written in black pen. Ferry Hall began construction on October 10, 1907 and was finished two years later due to lack of funding. The hall bore the name of Colonel William and Jeannette Ferry, Park City residents who contributed $15,000 of the $25,000 needed to erect the hall. The Ferry's were also a crucial factor in securing the land (in 1901) that Westminster College calls home today. Ferry Hall was originally built to be a women's dormitory; however, it served many functions throughout the years such as cafeteria, classrooms, administration offices, and terminal room for the computer center. Ferry Hall would suffer a sad fate in 1982 when the public building inspector condemned the hall as being unfit for public use. After the verdict the hall was used for storage until plans were made to build the Gore School of Business in its place. Ferry Hall was demo
Funding The Westminster College digital archives project is partially funded by the Masonic Foundation of Utah.
Publisher Westminster College
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Language eng
Relation Original Copy. Related to 000774
Rights Management Digital image copyright 2006, Westminster College. All rights reserved.
Holding Institution Westminster College
Source Physical Dimensions Archival TIFF 3000 X 4600
Source Resolution 400ppi
Display Dimensions JPEG: 650 x 1000
Bit Depth 8-bit
Scanning Device Epson Expression 836 XL flatbed scanner
ARK ark:/87278/s6100878
Setname wc_pc
ID 1094382
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6100878