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I graduated from West Virginia University (WVU) in 1976. I visited the campus about 15 years ago, with our daughter and I was amazed by the changes. When I was in Pittsburgh last week, my brother and I drove down for another tour. Again, I was amazed by the changes.
It’s going to take at least two weeks to share the doors from WVU. As it was when I was a student, the university is spread across two campuses–the Downtown Campus in Morgantown and the Evansdale Campus which is less than 5 mi (8 km) from the border with Pennsylvania. As such, it’s the first campus we came to as we arrived in West Virginia.
Many of the buildings on the Evansdale campus had not been built when I attended WVU. The Coliseum stood on a bit of flatland above the river. The Egineering Building was up on a hill across from the Coliseum and Med Center was on another hill across a little valley from the school of engineering.. I took PE and First Aid courses in the Coliseum, and I crawled through registration there. The class of 1976 commencement was also held there. I had one course in the Engineering building, which as I recall, was just about the only significant building in that area. I also had to visit the hospital which was housed along with the School of Medicine in a single large facility,
Both the School of engineering and the Medical Center have expanded dramatically in the past 40 years. Also, WVU build an Alumni Center in the valley between those two Evansdale residents.
Most of my courses were on the downtown campus, and Mountaineer Field (football) was also downtown. In 1976, expansion on the downtown campus was impossible. The campus backs up to the Monongahela River (which flows north to Pittsburgh) and abuts the urban center–such as it is–of Morgantown. The rest of the campus is surrounded by residential neighborhoods built on steep hills.
In 1980, the Mountaineers began playing football at Milan Puskar Stadium which had been built across from the Medical Center. The downtown stadium was demolished and in 2001, the School of Life Sciences got a new home downtown. We’ll see that and some of the historic buildings on the downtown campus next week.
I hope you enjoy the gallery, and I hope you can take some time and visit some of the doors from other participants in this challenge. On Sunday, I will post a recap of these doors and the ones people posted last week.
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