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Show Mansionls Future Uncertain . g DESERET NEWS, Monda! r I The 72 year-old McCune Mansion, now occupied by the Brigham Young University Salt Lake Center, at 200 N. Main, wiII be vacated next year and the house's future appears uncertain. According to Bruce Lake, , chairman of the center, the College center office wiII be moved by March or April to the former Veteran's Hospital I at 402 12th Ave. However, winter semester classes will continue in the McCune mansion, he said. The unusual brick home, I - built by Alfred McCune in classes each semester, Lake 1900,· was donated to The said. Church of Jesus Christ of The three-story home conLatter-day Saints in 1920, tains 21 rooms, many paneled Lake said. 'With wood imported from Brigham Young University throughout the world, Lake began holding classes there in said. The house has five marble 1959. From 1920 to 1959, the building was used as the fireplaces. In one room stands McCune School of Music and i Art, where some prominent I artists and musicians, such as Grant Johannesen, received i early training, Lake said. The university center has outgrown the building,' with 1,500 s tudents attending I --- - - - - -- - - - - - ' a statue of Cleopatra, con sid- I ered priceless by artists. I Behind the statue is a large I mirror imported from Italy. Banisters and ceilings in some rooms are hand carved. On one level is a ballroom and another room, called the "Four Seasons," which has |
