{"id":74,"date":"2023-08-15T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/gibill\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2023-10-13T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:48:49","slug":"a-changed-campus-landscape","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/gibill\/a-changed-campus-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"A Changed Campus Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Changed Campus Landscape\n<\/span><\/h1><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The dramatic enrollment of veterans on campus between 1945 and 1950 resulted in significant changes to the landscape of Syracuse University. Not only were there simply more students (mostly male) in attendance, but temporary buildings \u2014 both classroom and student housing \u2014 sprang up all around campus and the surrounding areas. These aerial photographs and maps illustrate the physical impact of the \u201cGI Bulge\u201d years at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nAerial photographs of Syracuse University\u2019s main campus, circa 1939 (left) and circa 1950 (right). Syracuse University Photograph Collection, University Archives<\/a>. <\/b>\n

These two aerial photographs \u2014 taken eleven years apart \u2014 illustrate the effect the influx of World War II veterans made on the Syracuse University campus. Upon careful examination of the 1950 photograph, one can see temporary classrooms nested in multiple places on the main campus. Note the prefabricated buildings behind Crouse College (top center) with others near Slocum and Machinery Halls (lower right) as well as Sims Hall (lower left) and Bowne Hall and Carnegie Library (left). There are differences with two other buildings in the 1950 photograph. By that year, a much-needed dining hall addition in Sims Hall had been completed. You may also notice that Archbold Gymnasium (below Archbold Stadium, top left) appears to be under construction. This is because the building was almost completely destroyed by fire in January 1947. Reconstruction started in the spring of 1948 and was not finished until 1952. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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