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Show Students coming down the stairs of and walking around Ferry Hall. A few students, all of them girls, carry Westminster College banners. The students are dressed formally. The foreground is mostly dirt and desert grass. In the distance, the Wasatch Mountains are visible. The background is mostly composed of sky. |
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The photo is in great condition There is a stain above the Hall in the image, but there seems to be little else wrong with it. There is a margin on the bottom. Black ink written in the bottom margin reads, "Students at Ferry Hall,[,] Westminster College [,] Salt Lake City", and the number "1915" is written in blue ink in the same margin. There is some dried glue on the back, with brown construction paper still stuck to it. Pencil handwriting reads "11½ x 14" (crossed out), "11 x 13½", "14-15" and "Note Tree." A purplish stamp reads "SHIPLERS [,] COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS [,] SALT LAKE CITY". 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 demolished in October of 1987. To commemorate the memory of the Ferry's philanthropic contributions to the school, Ferry plaza was erected in front of Converse Hall using some of the original foundation blocks of Ferry Hall. For more information and sources concerning the history of Foster Hall consult the following source: Brackenridge, R. Douglas. Westminster College of Salt Lake City. Logan Utah: Utah State University Press, 1998, pp. 115, 117-120, 132, 136, 140, 144-1446, 176, 180, 185, 225, 235 Etosian. Salt Lake City: Westminster College, 1982. Vol. 64 Pg. 44-45. |
