Title	View of sky and arches of Alumni Hall construction looking due south
Photographer	Gus R. Horvath
Date as Text	1958
Date	1958
High Resolution	http://digital.fairfield.edu/fuhp/hires/SL002341.jpg
Description	This photograph shows the foundation, equipment, and bare arches of the Alumni Hall construction site. Blue sky and trees can be seen through the concrete skeleton, and there are planks and a round metal can in the foreground. The School of Nursing would later be constructed on the far right of the photograph.
Notes	Alumni Hall is one of the earliest pre-stressed concrete structures of this kind ever attempted. Engineering magazines from the time noted that the eleven 160-foot pre-cast arches used in the building’s construction were a record-breaking span for pre-cast arch ribs used in the United States. Originally the gymnasium had a dividing wall separating it into two sections. On the floor of Alumni Hall is the Fairfield University seal. Renamed the Alumni Hall – Sports Arena in 1981, the gymnasium is the home of the women's Division I volleyball team and the Office of Sports Information. This is one of a series of 34 color slides depicting the construction of Alumni Hall from 1958-1959. The slides have been digitized in chronological order to show the progress of the construction over time, and have the identifiers SL002327 – SL002360 respectively.
Original Format	Slide; color; 2 x 2 in.
Source	Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections
Digital Specifications	These images exist as archived TIFF images and one or more JPEG versions for general use. They were scanned at 2400 dpi, 24 bit from the original using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner.
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Identifier	SL002341