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E.B. Hamrick Hall, located at the geographic center of Gardner-Webb University, is a typical institutional building with simple Colonial Revival details. It is the oldest building on campus, and unusual among the primarily post-World War II Colonial Revival buildings of the school. Gardner-Webb University, once characterized by Governor O. Max Gardner as the school that "refused to die," was founded in 1905 as Boiling Springs High School. The school had only 272 students when the hall was completed in 1925. Originally called the Memorial Building, the hall was intended as a memorial to the soldiers and sailors from the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run Baptist associations who served in World War I, especially three former students of the school who were killed during the war. As high school enrollment decreased because of the competition from public high school, the denominational school became a junior college in 1928.
E. B. Hamrick Hall is located on the Gardner-Webb University campus in Boiling Springs, NC. Visit the school's website for further information. |
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