Flagler 50: Exhibition Marks 50Th Anniversary Of Flagler College

An exhibition "Flagler 50: Celebrating a College in addition to a Preservation Legacy, 1968-2018” volition opened upwardly July 6, 2018 equally business office of the upcoming repertoire of 50th-anniversary celebrations at Flagler College.  The demonstrate volition locomote available through May 30, 2019,

The opening of the exhibition was purposefully scheduled to coincide amongst the 100th birthday of college founder, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., the grandnephew of Henry Flagler.  Lewis was instrumental inwards fostering the restoration of many buildings inwards St. Augustine, non simply the Hotel Ponce de Leon, that is directly used past times Flagler College.

You tin catch the Flagler College website for a list of anniversary events.

Previous posts featuring Flagler College may too locomote of interest:

• Thursday, May 26, 2016, "Flagler College Faculty Member Recognized for Work amongst Historic Preservation."
• Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015, "Massive Renovation Project at Flagler College."

Reflections On The Significance Of Campus Renovation

The High Plains Reader published an intriguing article, "Gateways to History are Best Kept Open," past times Ken Smith.  Smith focuses on the armory, a edifice built inwards 1905 on the campus of the quondam Manual Training School inwards Ellendale, ND.  His article every bit good includes an historical sketch of the establishment that evolved to larn a branch campus of the University of North Dakota earlier closing inwards the early on 1970s.

Work on the armory is directly finished as well as inwards September, 2018 the electrical flow occupant of the campus, Trinity Bible College, volition host an opened upward solid as well as every bit good opened upward 2 other renovated campus buildings of like vintage, a residence hall as well as the president's home.  

Smith comments that , "Saving as well as refurbishing these structures is an accomplishment that deserves respect or then the state as well as region. It hasn't been inexpensive or easy, merely this proficient operate deserves recognition far as well as wide."  

He every bit good draws an interesting contrast amongst a argument involving the University of North Dakota's upcoming determination on possible devastation of buildings of Wesley College.  Smith every bit good notes an irony where the "...state’s leading secular academy is nearly to demolish a gear upward of buildings that were in ane lawsuit devoted to a religious purpose. (While) Here inwards Ellendale our religiously based college is nearly to complete restoring a couplet of buildings that were in ane lawsuit devoted to a secular purpose."