Library (Lancaster & Greenwood)

Containers:

Drawer Library 01, Drawer Library 02

Scope and content:

This series contains furniture plans, floor plans, alterations and additions plans, and aerial view photographs.

Biographical / historical:

The Longwood library opened on November 9, 1939, and was constructed with help from the Federal Works Project Administration. The building was renamed for Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster in 1962 who was president of Longwood from 1946-1955. The building was converted to adminsitrative offices in the 1990s and was renamed Eason Hall in 2022 for Dr. Thomas Eason who was a professor of Biology at the college in the 1920s.

The New Library was completed in March 1991, the building was named for Dr. Janet D. Greenwood Longwood's First female President from 1981-1987 in September 2004.

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